Hacker tools liability
UK government have been trying to revamp computer crime laws. There are a number of issues discussed at theregister. One of which relates to the provision to ban development, ownership and distribution of “hacker tools”. But what are hacker tools? An example of a tool is a password recovery tool (good), which also happens to be also called password crackers (evil). As you can see hacker tools are a media. These tools are devices that can be used for good or evil. Examples include television and newspaper and of course money. As they say “money is root of all evil”. UK government at this stage don’t seem to be differentiating both angles, which has has caused some sharp criticism in industry.
Let’s see, Hackers are out there, if you ban the development, ownership and distribution, so call “hacker tools”,
still they continuous hacking and create threats to public.
Just like you are controlling how people clothing instead of spending afford to reduce those criminals rape cases isn’t it?
Certainly, every single issues has their different perspective points of view, pros and cons are definitely there.
Another is that, what’s the alternative way to acquire those banned tools if they in need indeed?
Probably this 2 terms “monopoly”, “marketing” will take in a good place.
Will hacker and everyone else really stop using it? If yes, they wouldn’t be so many rules being implemented and imposed.
They could just write a single or two lines of scripting to do some evils hacking.
Everyone has their right to do script, what I can say, eventually more and more “sophisticated” scripts being spread around.