Hacking Germany's New Computer Crime Law  Hacking Germany's New
Computer Crime Law Hacking Germany's New Computer Crime Law   By
Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading  AUGUST 22,
2007  Be careful what you joke about at the water cooler in
Germany these days  -- even a dig about a password stuck to a PC
monitor could be considered  breaking a new anti-hacker law that
went into effect this month.  Under the new law, such a joke
could be construed as making the password  "accessible." And
that's just the beginning. If a customer tells a sales  clerk at
a German office supply store that he's going to use his  newly-
purchased Windows XP software to hack into a bank, the clerk
could  get busted for selling him the OS.  These are the types
of extreme scenarios being played out over and over  by German
security vendors and researchers who are still trying to  figure
out just what the controversial new Section 202c StGB of the
country's computer crime laws really means to their business and
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