A majority of the European Parliament wants no ban on the possession of ‘hacktools’. GroenLinks wants, not that the making of such tools is prohibited. A ban on such software was announced last year.
According to a majority of the European Parliament a ban on the possession of hacktools difficult, for example, ict-security the vulnerability of their systems to test. How large the resistance to a ban is, is unclear, but it was going to be a vast majority, says a spokesman of the Party opposite Tweakers.net.
“A ban works wrongly”, let Mep Judith Sargentini know in a comment. The ban on the ship of hacktools last year was proposed and approved by the EU member states. A ban on the bezít think they are probably not necessary, however, as it turns out now. It therefore seems unlikely that the measure can get through.
GroenLinks is against a ban on the writing of such tools. “As security experts, not software to be able to write and share, will the criminals is always to stay one step ahead”, says mep Sargentini. The Greens in the European Parliament an amendment to prepare for the measure to delete.
Incidentally, it is in the Netherlands, as well as in a number of other EU countries, though not allowed to hackingtools to possess with the intention of the law to violate. That is laid down in the convention on cybercrime of the Council of Europe, inter alia by the Netherlands is signed. According to mep Sargentini also need to that treaty have agreed that the light be held.