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Re: Kryptografie in Frankreich verboten??



Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net> wrote:

> ich habe gerade mit großer Verblüffung in einem Vorlesungsskript
> "Kommunikationstechnik I" gelesen, dass der Einsatz und die Verbreitung
> von Verschlüsselungsverfahren in Frankreich verboten seien. Das kann
> ich mir zwar nicht so recht vorstellen, denke aber, dass sich das der
> Schreiber nicht ganz aus den Fingern gesaugt haben wird. Kann mir jemand
> sagen, was an diesem Statement stimmt?

Zum Thema *Frankreich* passend, ein Posting vor einem Monat im Bugtraq:

<snip>
From: K-OTiK Security <Special-Alerts@k-otik.com> To:
bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Full-Disclosure is now ILLEGAL in France ! (Vulnerabilties,
Technical details, Exploits ...) Date: 8 Apr 2004 23:41:18 -0000
X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404)


 A new anti-security law was voted yesterday in France, this law called
 LEN (loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique), the article 34
 with his 323-3-1 says :

 "The fact, without legitimate reason, of holding, of offering, of
 yielding or of placing at the disposal equipment, instrument, a
 data-processing or program conceived or especially adapted to make the
 facts envisaged by articles 323-1 to 323-3 is punished sorrows planned
 respectively for the infringement itself or the infringement most
 severely repressed."

 Translation :

 - having or distributing exploit code and/or detailed vulnerability
 information and/or information about hacking techniques, is ILLEGAL. -
 having or distributing hacking/security tools, scanners, pen testers, or
 technical white papers is ILLEGAL. - magazines and websites distributing
 security information about vulnerabilities or exploits are ILLEGAL.

 pathetic !

 the term "hold...without legitimate reason" replaced the the presumption
 of innocence by the "presumption of culpability", it means : "Any person
 handling exploits/viruses (researcher,consultant,hacker or kiddie) is
 guilty, and is in an illegal situation which could lead him to be charged
 - And if you are charged, YOU have to prove that you are innocent"

 Send us our "green cards" - thanks !

 K-OTik Staff /// http://www.k-otik.com

</snip>


Markus

-- 
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, 
and I don't know why I'll do it again.



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