{"id":778,"date":"2008-01-11T06:03:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T06:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2008\/01\/uk-government-set-to-make-hacking-tools-illegal\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:39:41","slug":"uk-government-set-to-make-hacking-tools-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2008\/01\/uk-government-set-to-make-hacking-tools-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Set to Make ‘Hacking Tools’ Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is sad news, it seems UK is considering following the lead of the Germans and their recently implemented hacking law 202(c)<\/a> regarding the making of ‘hacking tools<\/a>‘ illegal.<\/p>\n It’s almost like making baseball bats illegal because you can hit someone with it, doesn’t matter its made for playing sport and that’s what most people use it for..<\/p>\n The UK government has published guidelines for the application of a law that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called “hacking tools”.<\/p>\n The controversial measure is among amendments to the Computer Misuse Act included in the Police and Justice Act 2006. However, the ban along with measures to increase the maximum penalty for hacking offences to ten years and make denial of service offences clearly illegal, are still not in force and probably won’t be until May 2008 in order not to create overlap with the Serious Crime Bill, currently making its way through the House of Commons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sounds pretty ominous to me, even distributing said hacking tools can get you in trouble – that’s bad news for people like me that believe in sharing information, knowledge and hard to find tools.<\/p>\n