EU pact criminalising security research? Pt II
The Council of Europe has promised to provide a list of exceptions to the treaty, and professional network administrators will likely end up exempt. But hackers at the Amsterdam conference were still worried about the plight of the thousands of hobbyists who currently research vulnerabilities in their spare time and in good faith. And software writers -- such as the author of nMap -- would likely be offered no legal protection.
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