Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] UK Seeks to Ban 'Hacking Tools'

  • Subject: Re: [News] UK Seeks to Ban 'Hacking Tools'
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 06:28:14 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
  • References: <6531767.O52uApBgfj@schestowitz.com> <1598217.Br2mmuqt5R@nomail.afraid.org>
  • Reply-to: newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • User-agent: KNode/0.7.2
[Oopsie. Typo in subject line.]

__/ [ P. ] on Sunday 21 May 2006 03:14 \__

> 'Twas brillig, and the slithy Roy Schestowitz did gyre and gimble in the
> wabe:
> 
>> UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Security experts fear that the UK government is on track to outlaw the
>> | supply of network security tools, and even scripting languages such as
>> | Perl
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | People who distribute networking vulnerability scanning tools such as
>> | nmap or Nessus could also be caught up in part (b), Clayton warned.
>> `----
>> 
>> They should probably outlaw Windows as well, for all the trouble it causes
>> in a networked environment.
>> 
>>         http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39270045,00.htm
> 
> This is just pathetic; another example of the knee-jerk reaction of the
> uninformed idiots we have running our countries.  Should the makers of guns
> be locked up?  Guns are _intended_ to kill or at least cause harm, unless
> there's a shortage of ploughshares where you live.

Maybe they perceive Perl as the Red Threat...

Best wishes,

Roy

-- 
Roy S. Schestowitz      |    "In hell, treason is the work of angels"
http://Schestowitz.com  |     GNU/Linux     ¦     PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
  6:25am  up 23 days 13:22,  11 users,  load average: 1.63, 1.02, 0.66
      http://iuron.com - next generation of search paradigms

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index