You need to know how to carry out a cyberattack before you can devise a way to stop it, so CS students need to be taught how to do cyberattacks to learn about cybersecurity.
My CS security class had a virtual machine set up with vulnerabilities, such that each vulnerability you exploited would let you log in as a different user. It was quite fun!
That you can’t get or distribute or enable people to get applications that could enable people to commit cyber attacks.
Just sent the paragraph through deepl:
Any person who prepares to commit a criminal offense under § 202a or § 202b by
producing, obtaining for oneself or another, selling, transferring to another, distributing, or otherwise making available passwords or other security codes that enable access to data (§ 202a(2)), or
computer programs intended for the commission of such an offense,
shall be punished by imprisonment for up to two years or by a fine.
Glad we don’t have such a rule in the Netherlands. My school has “hack friday” every friday, where we come together with a few students and a teacher to do a HackTheBox challenge.
What is the law? That you can’t prepare against cyber attacks?
You need to know how to carry out a cyberattack before you can devise a way to stop it, so CS students need to be taught how to do cyberattacks to learn about cybersecurity.
Which is why the so called hacker paragraph is so very controversial.
I hate proto-fascists so fucking much.
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Liberals, larval fascists, the shield arm of fascism.
My CS security class had a virtual machine set up with vulnerabilities, such that each vulnerability you exploited would let you log in as a different user. It was quite fun!
That you can’t get or distribute or enable people to get applications that could enable people to commit cyber attacks.
Just sent the paragraph through deepl:
Emphasis mine.
Glad we don’t have such a rule in the Netherlands. My school has “hack friday” every friday, where we come together with a few students and a teacher to do a HackTheBox challenge.
So it’s only illegal if you intend to commit a criminal offense.
This seems like a pretty standard law regarding tools which can be used to commit crimes.
That’s how I read it too but it does depend upon the wording of 202a and 202b that define what a criminal offence is in this context.
IANAL, but the German wording is ambiguous enough for this to not be clear.
How is that different from it being illegal to possess the key to someone’s house unknowingly, and to use it for criminal purposes?
So having a password is illegal in Germany??
Fortunately only if it “enables access to data”.
It’s safer if you stop talking about it, or we’re going to have to report you to the authorities.