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Date: 2000-05-16
Cybercrime Convention als Unsicherheitsfaktor-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Tools" in der Cybercrime-Convention des Europarats/G-8 ein klassicher Fall, das Kind mit dem Bade aus zu schütten. Damit würden Security Tools illegalisiert, die zur Abwehr echter Angriffswaffen auf Netze nötig seinen. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- The Council of Europe has released a draft of a proposed treaty on crime in cyberspace. (The Council of Europe consists of over 40 signatory nations, including the U.S., Canada, Japan, Russia, and South Africa.) While well- intentioned, it has a provision that could effectively cripple research. The offending paragraph states: > Article 6 Illegal Devices > > Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as > may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its > domestic law when committed intentionally and without right: > > a.the production, sale, procurement for use, import, > distribution or otherwise making available of: > > 1.a device, including a computer program, designed > or adapted [specifically] [primarily] [particularly] for the > purpose of committing any of the offences established in > accordance with Article 2 This would make it illegal to create, post, or download any piece of software that is "designed or adapted" to break into computer systems. This is one of those "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" sorts of provisions. Many legitimate computer-security tools -- vulnerability scanners, for example -- fall into this category. So does most of the computer-security research that discovers and fixes existing vulnerabilities. The effects of this treaty, if enforced, will only enable more insecure software. I don't see how this law will affect the computer criminals. They're already distributing attack tools, and most of them do so anonymously. This will primarily affect legitimate computer-security research. Treaty: <http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/projets/cybercrime.htm> News article: <http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36047,00.html> -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2000-05-16 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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