The German THC group as well as the other groups based in Germany were actually picketing during the ongoing deliberation for the ratification of the German Anti Hacker Law. By the name in itself, the law is already wrong on various points.
1. The term "hacker" when sticking to the original norm and definition as used since the 1950's, are tinkerers and self-taught researchers with a quest for knowledge. Hackers are no different to monks, hermits, philosophers, and the like. The only difference is the medium of which the hacker is researching on. 2. The recent connotation of the term "hacker" is flawed. Mainstream "understanding" of the word "hacker" is it already constitutes cybercriminals, and crackers. Thus, the term "hacker" now also connotes "digital hooliganism". 3. With the German "Anti-Hacker Law", it may now prevent self-study and self-quest for knowledge since it may be used to thwart "hackish" activities. These activities may include install-fests, hack-my-box fests, LAN parties, and reverse-the-unknown-driver which can benefit the whole local digital community. Hackish activities may again become another "guerilla" activity instead of allowing it to prosper in the mainstream (eg. Ethical Hacking). They should have termed it Anti-Cracker Law instead of the current name or used a more appropriate term Anti-Cyber Crime Law. At least our own fledgling law is named appropriately. On 9/4/07, Ron Michael Khu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://freeworld.thc.org/welcome/press.html > > The German fraction of THC stops all activities that have been labeled > illegal under the German anti hacker law. The law forbids German > citizens to research, discuss or disclouse security problems. THC is an > independent non-commercial security research organization with over 10 > years of experience. > > For the last 10 years THC exposed fishy security in commercial products, > informed the customer and pushed the companies for stronger and better > security. says a THC founder who does not want to be named. > > Another German THC members was quoted saying [] we were similar what the > ADAC is for cars: We made sure that what was labeled secure was secure > indeed! > > When asked what kind of law the government should have passed a THC > member responded there is no law that makes companies responsible for > broken or insecure software. Anything can be labeled virus-safe or > secure when in fact there is no security in the product whatsoever. > > THC is the last of many research groups leaving Germany. > > With no independent security research group left in Germany the citizens > are exposed to fraud, hoax security products and identity theft. > > If you are living outside Germany and want to take over the development > of the THC tools please contact us at members at thc dot org. > > THC is now hosted on two servers: http://freeworld.thc.org is the server > of the international members. http://germany.thc.org is the server of > the German members who devote their time spinning their thumbs. > > > > _________________________________________________ > Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- "A dog that has no bite, barks loudest." Registered Linux User #400165 http://contour.runhosting.com - free host http://baudizm.blogsome.com http://phossil.ifastnet.com Subscribed to: LARTC, Open-ITLUG, PRUG, KLUG, linuxusersgroup, sybase.public.ase.linux SHA256: 857dd62339c9fe27460b725747dfe25d5612933f7d879c35fb0cba2dadaf972f
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