Malte Hahlbeck wrote: > Today the upper House of the German Parliament (Bundesrat) > decided to declare Security Software like nmap, nessus etc. > illegal in a way that the software itself and not it's > criminal use is indictable. That is no Joke. This Law will > be active when it is published. That should last a few > weeks. > > What would be the consequence? Will there be the need of a > non-germany-tree in the Debian Repositories? This question > is no joke.
Modifying the archive structure for every broken law is not a viable option. This is mostly a mirror problem, but we need easy ways to provide mirror operators the means to opt-out content potentially harmful to a given jurisdiction. PS: Funny/scary side aspect: The German minister of justice, who's behind this law was asked by kid reporters about the internet; she doesn't even know what a web browser is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1xs1jDcis (German language) (Use youtube-dl and mplayer to watch this with free software) Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
