Navaho Gunleg

Well, in the Netherlands anyway.

Today, parliament decided to accept 2 new laws in order to make it easier to repress, suppress and oppress.

See, this new law has some things in it that could effectively send anyone to Gbay, or at least some jail.

Now it is made illegal to intrude a computer system.

No matter how, or why. To make sure that Microsoft’s crappy software cannot be blamed — they introduced that little change, making the how and why irrelevant. Also, if you broke into the system just to prove that some company has been ripping off the people and the state for millions and millions of dollars, you’re still elegible to end up in jail for at least 1 year.

Idiots.

They even make it illegal to have certain ‘tools’ on your computer. Really, I have got nothing to hide, but I definitely fear the man’s interpretation. Sure I got some tools present on my network to do assessments whether it’s safe enough. Or to test some machine against some hole. Yep, this new law can send you to jail, just for that.

That’s insane. Supposedly, this stuff has been discussed for 4,5 years. Seeing this came out of it — those naive fuckers in the government don’t know shit.

In current day and age, with all these unprotected wireless connections, all of the above acts can’t even be proven without any reasonable doubt!!

The ‘no matter how‘ bit scares me. All these silly laws scare me. Basically, by setting up an URL that could intrude some network (but not following it myself), I can associate all the visitors to my website with an intrusion somewhere else. The judge won’t care ‘how’ and ‘why’ this happened — you’ll just get sent to jail.

Basically, anybody hitting repeatedly hitting Refresh can be sent to jail: that’s the act of willingly putting a load on another network.

Internet, Cybercrime, The Netherlands