Overbroad Computer Crime Act
am 25.05.2007 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
CK - Washington. In its 100th session, the Berlin diet, Bundestag, passed revisions to the federal criminal code, Strafgesetzbuch, late on May 24, 2007. The amendment includes rules defining additional computer crimes, mostly those commonly referred to as hacking. In implementing European Union directives, the rules address the destruction of media and computer hardware as well the capturing electromagnetic waves which might emanate from computing systems by accident or purpose.
The statute addresses a number of procedures characteristic of cracking. Certain beneficial hacking activities are likely to meet the criteria established by the same rules which rightly worries security experts and the Chaos Computer Club. For example, some security defense tools on the BOSS CD …
Combat Computer Crime
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. A bill to combat computer crime is available for download from the Attorney Generals office in Berlin. A press release of September 20, 2006 explains that the bill closed the last loopholes for crackers in the German Criminal …
Key Software Becomes Illegal
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. For some time now, Austrian criminal law has prohibited the possession and use of software programs that enable the interception of data, such as wireless network transmissions. Today, RA Kadelke warns, a German amendment to…
Spyware by Statute
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Proposals by Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Secretary of the Interior, to restate and expand the jurisdiction of the Federal Crime Agency, Bundeskriminalamt, and the Federal Police, Bundespolizei, trigger heated comments…
Wrong IP Address Leads to Child-Porn Accusation for Couple
Law & Justice / Tech Law Prof Blog refers to this story (newspaper Wichita Eagle, 12/09/05) about a couple who was misidentified by their Internet Service Provider (ISP) in response to a police child porn investigation. The police confiscated their computer and in…
New Law Enforcement Rules
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Against substantial opposition, the federal diet in Berlin passed two statutes to ratify European Union directives regulating wire-tapping and collection of data about communications. In the past, telecommunications companies…
IP Address Insufficient for Conviction
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / RM - Washington. A criminal investigation in Germany produced the IP address of a computer from which a defamation allegedly originated. On August 7, 2007, the Bochum criminal court agreed with the defense that the standard of proof in cr…
Published Tax IDs: Problem
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Proof that the publication requirements for web site owners in Germany can do real harm: Heise.de reports on the potential for abuse of tax IDs and unauthorized access to the tax filing system. Mischievous parties can easily…
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