__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 18 November 2006 19:08 \__
> "The Police and Justice Bill 2006 .. contains amendments to the
> Computer Misuse Act 1990 that alter the law surrounding the creation
> and distribution of 'dual use' software tools"
>
> "Part 37 of the .. Bill .. states: "A person is guilty of an offence
> if he supplies or offers to supply any article believing that it is
> likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an
> offence"
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39284750,00.htm
Seen it before and the following caught my eye.
"As well as security researchers, Linux distributions could also be affected,
as they often bundle dual-use systems administration tools, such as TCP dump
and nmap, said Hutty."
I can recall some debate (in Britain, I think) about banning languages like
Perl because allegedly they are malovalent. I suppose that FUD spewed by
McAfee does not help those decision makers who could tell apart a program
from their arse.
http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/mcafee_fud.html
FUD by Association
Michael J. Jordan, Linux Online Staff
July 19, 2006
"First, there was plain, old FUD - classic Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Then
we had stealth FUD. Now we have FUD by association.
In what can be best described as a drive-by FUD-ing, Dave Marcus, the
security research manager for anti-virus company McAfee claims that malware
developers have embraced the open source development model."
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