Try this http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/projets/cybercrime.htm And GET IN ON THE DISCUSSION!!! Before some politicians start taking this nonsense seriously and brand us all criminals, tell them what you think. Article 2--Accessing a computer to which he has no right-- If I fat-finger a ping to the wrong address, have I become a criminal? If that address doesn't want to be pinged... I have. Article 6-- Wow, read this ONE in its entirety. Mandrake includes nmap in the distro and this would make possession of the tool illegal. It would also strip me of my best security auditing tool and leave me wide open to the black hats unless I allowed my hat to become a little grey and buried a CD in my front yard and hoped the government didn't have metal detectors when they inspected my site. They say this is for discussion--go discuss and do so today!1! Otherwise we will find a need to nourish the roots of the tree of liberty with the blood of free-speech patriots once again. This is ten times worse than the digital millenium copyright act and is an example of a series of governments taking themselves too seriously and believing they have more power than they could possibly achieve. The only way they could enforce this is to dismantle the internet, therefore selective enforcement could become a political weapon. ... One could compare the internet to a 1500 lane superhighway with on-ramps from everywhere with all its regulations enforced by a couple of Keystone Kops with broken whistles (and riding rusty bicycles) while there are 500-man vigilante squads armed with thermonuclear weapons. So, let us declare silly season open and see if we can inject a bit of common sense to this obviously runaway thread on the channel covered by that URL. Civileme
