Andreas Fink <[email protected]> 2009-03-17: > Collegues, > > The federal adminstration wants to change the law about cyber crime. > > See also: > > >http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/gg/pc/pendent.html#EJPD > (or especially Genehmigung und Umsetzung des Übereinkommens des > Europarates über die Cyberkriminalität ) [...]
Note that according to the "Adressatenliste", SwiNOG was explicitly invited to comment on the proposed change of law. I guess SwiNOG should comment on Art. 143bis Abs. 2 and request a clarification, in order to make sure that academical, commercial and private IT security research will not be affected by the change of law. The proposed wording of Abs. 2 currently does not adequatly honour the fact that security tools are dual-use goods by nature; i.e. they are not inherently good or evil. Or in other words, there is no practical way to distinguish a tool used by a professional penetration tester from a tool used by a blackhat. The difference between the two is not in the tools, it's in the contracts (i.e. approval of the target's owner). -- Daniel Roethlisberger http://daniel.roe.ch/ _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
