Story: UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
Posted by: Alan Fisher (Monday 22 May 2006, 11:13 AM)
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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Story: UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
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The real goal lobbied for really is ofcourse getti... Arthur B. -
The sooner parliament is dragged kicking and... Alan -
So, it would be illegal to sell PCs or MS Windows?... Ron d'Lawyer
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And where does this end? What defines an 'article... Jim Morrison
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I contacted my MP, Meg Munn over this about 4 mont... Alan Fisher -
Great, so now we have the Home Office telling us t... SK
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STBO but this will be decided at great expense in... Steve B
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As anyone who works in network admin knows, hackin... Addsy
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Who is really behind this new law? Who actua... a n other
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I also believe that hacking is currently ille... Myles
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Looks like my turn for being raided and convicted... Sid Boyce
