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German Hacker Tool Law
Today in Germany the "Hacker Tool Law" goes into effect. With the official name of Paragraph 202C, it states that it is illegal to possess, use, produce, or distribute a "hacker tool". A few things to immediately note:
- Once again, someone is trying to introduce protection, or the illusion of it, by enforcing Draconian measures vs. using awareness and education.
- They fail to understand the role that hackers (vs."crackers") have historically played in the development and understanding of technology.
- Contrary to popular belief, America is not the only place with constipated legal tendencies. And this is the historically industrious Germany, no less!
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Welcome to ReddKnight, a blog about "Ubiquitous Computing, Entrepreneurship and Other Things".
This is where I post thoughts on my current interests as well entrepreneurial endeavors, and since my interests and activities tend to change over time, so has focus of the blog. For this I apologize in advance and retroactively.
However, lately, under the emerging field of ubiquitous computing, or "ubicomp", I am experiencing a convergence of many of my professional and personal interests including system architecture, wireless technology, human-machine interaction, techo-art, and futurism.
I (and others) find the prospects of ubicomp both invigorating and somewhat scary. If you are interested, I invite you to share its evolution on my blog.
Chris McCarley aka ReddKnight
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Welcome to the launch of my new blog, or more accurately, the nth relaunch of the ReddKnight website.
I will be covering topics and news on Proximity Marketing and Bluetooth. As you can see in my slogan, I also threw in the blanket topic of wireless culture so that I can exercise my blog-given right to wander to whatever topics catch my attention-deficit interest.
So please return your seat to a totally non-upright position, sit back and hopefully enjoy the flight, rk