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chunkiestbacon | 10 years ago

Using Wireshark is sort of illegal in Germany.

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heinrich5991|10 years ago

Can you elaborate?

tremon|10 years ago

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/new_german_ha...

Germany introduced a poorly-worded cybercrime law that basically made all network tools illegal (including nmap, wi-spy), but also disassemblers, on the basis that they "could be used in digital crime".

It's similar to making cars illegal because of a traffic fatality.

yAnonymous|10 years ago

He's wrong. Using hacking tools for attacks is illegal. Using Wireshark for network analysis is fine.

It's more about the intent than about what software you use.

coldtea|10 years ago

Well, being an "inferior race" was also sort of illegal in Germany back in the day too. Hopefully we progress over time.