* Nathan Andrew Fain schrieb am 2015-01-28 um 14:17 Uhr: > International journalists are not in a better position. The legal > framework in some ways is worse than in the US. Specifically in > Germany for information security journalism, it is still against the > law to distribute (host) any code or tool that has an alternate use > that could in the end be used for something illegal [1]. This is
The german journal iX once distributed a copy of Backtrack and made a self-indictment. This was later quashed, because one need to have criminal intent for a prosecution. The constitutional court also said something similar. So you can distribute dual-use tools and it is done on a regular basis here. -- Jens Kubieziel http://www.kubieziel.de Das Beste in der Musik steht nicht in den Noten. Gustave Flaubert -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
