[traverseda]

What alternative do you suggest?

[rpdillon]

Wait, installing nmap on your laptop from a Linux distribution's repositories is a crime in Germany?

[kace91]

>Not sure about US law, but in Germany, creating or possessing a hacking tool (including things like nmap) is a criminal offence.

Surely that must be wrong, are security certs not a thing in Germany?

[kulahan]

In the US you’re allowed to have pretty much whatever code you want on your computer, obviously excepting binary representations of illegal photo/video content.

How do they even enforce it? Or is it just an extra law to throw at someone already convicted of something?

[esseph]

That is fucking insane.

Basically Linux itself would be classified as a "hacking tool".