In Germany you you cannot inform a website that it has a vulnerability, because in their eyes, vulnerabilities can only be found if you're intentionally looking for it. Therefore you must be a criminal.
@[email protected]@[email protected] How ridiculous😂. and china have the same thing: amateur radio enthusiasts (Usually called HAM) can't even report the illegal occupation of non-amateur frequency bands, because the law also prohibits them from listening to non-amateur frequency bands, which means that once they report such illegal acts, it proves that they have listened, which is also illegal.
You need to know how to carry out a cyberattack before you can devise a way to stop it, so CS students need to be taught how to do cyberattacks to learn about cybersecurity.
That you can't get or distribute or enable people to get applications that could enable people to commit cyber attacks.
Just sent the paragraph through deepl:
Any person who prepares to commit a criminal offense under § 202a or § 202b by
producing, obtaining for oneself or another, selling, transferring to another, distributing, or otherwise making available passwords or other security codes that enable access to data (§ 202a(2)), or
computer programs intended for the commission of such an offense,
shall be punished by imprisonment for up to two years or by a fine.
Glad we don't have such a rule in the Netherlands. My school has "hack friday" every friday, where we come together with a few students and a teacher to do a HackTheBox challenge.
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In Germany you you cannot inform a website that it has a vulnerability, because in their eyes, vulnerabilities can only be found if you're intentionally looking for it. Therefore you must be a criminal.
Wow. Are German websites just full of CVEs all the time?
@[email protected] @[email protected] How ridiculous😂. and china have the same thing: amateur radio enthusiasts (Usually called HAM) can't even report the illegal occupation of non-amateur frequency bands, because the law also prohibits them from listening to non-amateur frequency bands, which means that once they report such illegal acts, it proves that they have listened, which is also illegal.
is this in reference to something Im not aware of?
At first I thought this comic was about sex education in the US.
It's just the German law.
Like... that's how it is. In Germany.
Magazine of the German association of computer scientists recently did an article on it and we provided this... commentary.
What is the law? That you can’t prepare against cyber attacks?
You need to know how to carry out a cyberattack before you can devise a way to stop it, so CS students need to be taught how to do cyberattacks to learn about cybersecurity.
Which is why the so called hacker paragraph is so very controversial.
I hate proto-fascists so fucking much.
Liberals, larval fascists, the shield arm of fascism.
That you can't get or distribute or enable people to get applications that could enable people to commit cyber attacks.
Just sent the paragraph through deepl:
Emphasis mine.
How is that different from it being illegal to possess the key to someone's house unknowingly, and to use it for criminal purposes?
So it’s only illegal if you intend to commit a criminal offense.
This seems like a pretty standard law regarding tools which can be used to commit crimes.
That’s how I read it too but it does depend upon the wording of 202a and 202b that define what a criminal offence is in this context.
Glad we don't have such a rule in the Netherlands. My school has "hack friday" every friday, where we come together with a few students and a teacher to do a HackTheBox challenge.
So having a password is illegal in Germany??
Fortunately only if it "enables access to data".
It's safer if you stop talking about it, or we're going to have to report you to the authorities.
Ski masks instead of Guy Fawkes masks and hoodies? Smh probably won't learn much from this cyber security course
I know, but those are harder to draw! Guess those participants just have become the victims of my artistic laziness.
and tbh I need the refresher 😭