In article <Kwqfj.72370$c_1.2929@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rich R <richard.reynolds1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In any case, how can you prevent the use of these tools? It's not like
> buying a weapon from a shop where you have to prove your credentials, one
> simply downloads what one wants :) Whether they are illegal or not is
> irrelevant.
If could be like banning drug paraphernalia. If you try to bust someone
for drug possession, and they manage to flush the drugs down the toilet
before you get in, you then can fall back and get them for possession of
banned paraphernalia.
So, they suspect you of being responsible for some computer crime. They
get enough evidence to search your computer. You've not left any
evidence of that crime, but you've got those illegal hacking tools, so
now they've got some leverage over you.
If a government wants to be repressive, a good way to do it is make a
lot of things illegal that people might want to do legitimately and that
would be hard to broadly enforce. A lot of people will then violate
those laws. When you have some particular person you want to repress or
harass, a little investigation, and you can turn up something he's doing
illegal.
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--Tim Smith
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