UK to make security/hacking tools illegal?
The Register reports on a new UK guideline that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called hacking” security tools.
The controversial measure is among amendments to the Computer Misuse Act included in the Police and Justice Act 2006. However, the ban along with measures to increase the maximum penalty for hacking offences to ten years and make denial of service offences clearly illegal, are still not in force and probably won’t be until May 2008 in order not to create overlap with the Serious Crime Bill, currently making its way through the House of Commons.
I was amazed when the German computer crime laws came into effect in August 2007, but it looks like the insanity is spreading to other parts of Europe as well.