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What is considered a hacking tool? Does it only affect highly automated, single purpose tools which can not be used in any legitimate way, or does it affect things like hexdump or nc?

Also, who makes the distinction? Is it eveluated on a case by case basis by the court or is there a list of "verboten" tools?



Let me guess, it is evaluated on per case basis and then it gets into the list. Some stupid court in the middle of nowhere outlaws tcpdump and then every linux user is a criminat.


They don't even know because most of this "clever" politicians have absolutely no idea what "hacking" actually means, let alone a "hacking tool"...


Also, would this include just guessing passwords? As that seems to have fallen into the common definition of 'hacking'...




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