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Story: UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

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Posted by: Alan Fisher (Monday 22 May 2006, 11:13 AM)

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I contacted my MP, Meg Munn over this about 4 months ago when it was first announced, I was promised that the law would be written in such a way as to safeguard legitimate uses of software such as NMAP.

I even got a reply from Paul Goggins at the Home Office catagorically stating that the lynchpin to this was to be in proving the intent. However, its not just the CMA thats a problem, this, combined with clause 35 of the new Police and Justice Bill would make it illegal to even supply tools that have "dual use" (Their words, not mine). So kiss good bye to most of the contents of your tcp/ip stack, and prepair to hand in all current copies of operating systems in use, these morons just made them illegal.

The laws are too broad and have clearly been written by people who know little or nothing about computing.

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