Watch Out, White Hats! European Union Moves to Criminalize ‘Hacking Tools’

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Watch Out, White Hats! European Union Moves to Criminalize ‘Hacking Tools’

April 6th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Wired.com
April 6, 2012

The European Union is continuing a push to criminalize the production or sale of ‘hacking’ tools, a move that civil liberties advocates argue could make criminals out of legitimate security researchers.

The proposal is intended to create stiffer penalties across Europe for hacking and denial of service attacks, imposing a maximum sentence of up to five years for hacking into a site or using a botnet to flood a site with fake traffic.

The proposed law, which was passed by the European Commission’s Civil Liberties Committee last week, still has a ways to go before going into effect – but the EFF’s international rights director Katitza Rodriguez says now is the time to raise awareness about the proposal.

“There are times when security researchers need to access systems without permission without no criminal intent,” Rodriguez said, citing an example of researchers in India who discovered flaws in e-voting machines. “The language in these proposals could undermine legitimate research.”