Apparently, Germany has recently
outlawed the posession of "hacker tools". I haven't seen the actual law text (and don't read enough German for it to do me any good), but according to the report, the law really does just say that, with no significant further clarification. To belabor the obvious, I can immediately think of two separate reasons
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Its more of an added low-grade offense to give prosecutors more options.
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I mean, if someone wants to do the legwork and narrow down their statute to ban, I dunno, blog-hacking scripts or similar crapola, that sounds fine to me. (The thought would be nice, even though I doubt they'd catch anybody.) But it's probably a bit much to hope for.
DFS.
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