[Similar news come/came to the UK...]
German Security Professionals in the Mist
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| This hope was important because earlier this year the German Government had
| introduced similar language into Section 202c StGB of the computer crime
| laws, which would have made the mere possession of (creates, obtains or
| provides access to, sells, yields, distributes or otherwise allows access to)
| tools like John, Kismet, KisMAC, Nessus, nmap, and the ability to Google
| effectively a crime.
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http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/08/12/249/German_Security_Professionals_in_the_Mist
But here's the type of real issues that they miss (other than Windows zombies):
Thieves in U.K. steal police data server
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| Because of the sheer volume of forensic computing work undertaken these days,
| FTS is only one of many companies employed by the government, police forces,
| private companies and various other public bodies to undertake this work.
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http://news.com.com/Thieves+in+U.K
+steal+police-data+server/2100-7348_3-6202181.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Facebook's source code goes public
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| Today a newly created blog, named Facebook Secrets, posted Facebook's
| homepage source code online for everyone to see.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9758702-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Here we go:
http://facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/
If this was an open source project, there would be no reason to panic.
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