Germany passes antihacking law
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| Other punishable cybercrimes include DOS (denial-of-service) attacks
| and computer sabotage attacks on individuals, which would extend the
| existing law that limited sabotage to businesses and public authorities.
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| Chaos Computer Club also warns that the law could make it much easier
| for the German government to allow law enforcement officials to
| install spyware on computers of suspected criminals without their
| knowledge. The club is concerned about the ability of consumers
| and businesses to protect their systems from government spyware
| without support from the hacker community.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=690399781&rid=-50
Attempting to stop Windows zombies while at the same time facilitating
Windows back doors.
Related:
German cops and spooks prep own spyware
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| Germany's police and secret services are pushing for a legal
| basis for "online house searches" -- carried out without the
| knowledge of suspects, using spyware similar to a Trojan.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/27/german_state_hackers/
Experts are calling for product liability for software
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| "Product liability does not apply to software," Gerald Spindler
| of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen complained.
| "But what if a whole company comes to a standstill due to faulty
| software?" he mused.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86932/from/rss09
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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