Andreas Fink <afink@list.fink.org> 2009-03-17:
> Collegues,
>
> The federal adminstration wants to change the law about cyber crime.
>
> See also:
>
> >http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/gg/pc/pendent.html#EJPD
> (or especially Genehmigung und Umsetzung des Übereinkommens des
> Europarates über die Cyberkriminalität )
[...]
Note that according to the "Adressatenliste", SwiNOG was
explicitly invited to comment on the proposed change of law.
I guess SwiNOG should comment on Art. 143bis Abs. 2 and request a
clarification, in order to make sure that academical, commercial
and private IT security research will not be affected by the
change of law. The proposed wording of Abs. 2 currently does not
adequatly honour the fact that security tools are dual-use goods
by nature; i.e. they are not inherently good or evil. Or in
other words, there is no practical way to distinguish a tool used
by a professional penetration tester from a tool used by a
blackhat. The difference between the two is not in the tools,
it's in the contracts (i.e. approval of the target's owner).
--
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/
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