Re: Keith T

"What the Germans should be doing is outlawing such dual-use security invading software in the hands of anyone other than a licensed security professional. I agree that completely outlawing it is going overboard."

While you have an interesting idea, I think that the LAST thing Germany needs is even more bureaucracy. A car is a dual-purpose tool: I can drive along the Autobahn at 250km/h and I can decide to steer it into the crowd gathere in the nearest predestrian precint. Clearly, one of these uses is legal the other is not. Why can we not apply this to performance and securtiy testing tools? Is a `dual-purpose' tool as dangerous as a gun?

I need to figure out whom to write about this abomination of a law, so that it can get changed. But considering that a recent report showed that German politicians do not even know what a browser is, nor use the internet, it's clear how such a thing could get passed.