On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:53:16PM +0100, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:18:08PM +0100, Patrick Tybo wrote:
> >    About the blacklist: tcpdumd/snoop and wireshark: no way, maybe
> >    metasploit on a gray line, mostly 0day stuff floating from irc to email
> >    to email etc are a real problem.
> 
> Can you give me a legal guarantee that tcpdump will in no case be considered
> as a hacker tool? No, you can't. It always depends on mood and understanding
> of the judge in question, and potentially other factors.
> 

Actually this is the biggest risk of this law. Taking away "hacker tools"
from sysadmins and software developers will decrease the security
of the swiss IT infrastructure. It is like outlawing vaccination.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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