[sage] Strafanzeige gegen das BSI^Wunbekannt wegen Verbreitung von Hackertools :-)

[Dirk Wetter]

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Moin,

hehe, was für eine Ironie: Die linke Hand (das BSI ist dem BMI unterstellt) wird
verklagt, für das, was die rechte (BMJ) vorangetrieben hat. :-)

Im Ernst: Geschickter Schachzug. Man darf gespannt sein auf die richterliche
Klarstellung.

	Dirk


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Subject: [john-users] Complaint filed vs. german gov-agency for distributing jtr
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:38:21 +0200
From: thomas springer <thomas.springer at gmail.com>
Reply-To: john-users at lists.openwall.com
To: john-users at lists.openwall.com

To whom it may concern, especially for our german-users:

Germany recently adopted a new law-paragraph making the posession,
distribution and use of tools like nmap and john the ripper a crime
(202c StGB).

There were quite a lot of sensible people protesting, but government
said, the goal is not to sue security-experts, but hackers. But the
wording of the law speaks clearly another language.

There were no court-orders or known filed complaints because of 202c StGB yet.

German online-magazine tecchannel.de is trying to get clarity about
the new law and filed a complaint (9/14/07) against the german
government-agency "Federal Office for Information Security (BSI, see
http://www.bsi.de/english/index.htm) for distributing John the Ripper
on one of its CDs and linking to a page (http://www.openwall.com)
where users can download the tool.

A screenshot of the complaint is here:
http://images.tecchannel.de/images/tecchannel/bdb/361100/361109/B83CB84F13B738958633FFED96A57C1A_800x600.jpg
The article (german only, sorry) here:
http://www.tecchannel.de/sicherheit/grundlagen/1729025/

I'm rather interested in this case, for i still distribute and use JtR
and i creditet myself in the compiled the Windows-Binarys available
from www.openwall.com. Drop me a note if this is noteworthy enough to
keep you posted about the outcome.

cheers,

tom
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