EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools"
Sam gets arrested because he's carrying burglary tools at 03:00 in the morning and gets charged with burglary.<p>Defending himself he appears before the judge and asks the judge if they're going to accuse him of rape as well.<p>The judge, somewhat surprised at the turn of events bellows: "Don't tell me that you raped a woman as well?"<p>Sam responds: "No, obviously not. But I was carrying my tools.".<p>--<p>Even if you had the worst of the worst hacking tools sitting around on your system, it should be the actual use of those tools against someone else's machine for which you have no permission to access that creates the offence.<p>Those that break in to systems are not going to be deterred by this at all and those that make a living doing penetration tests and such will be unable to do their job giving the bad guys a nice advantage.<p>Silly lawmakers making silly laws with the best of intentions are the worst thing that can happen. I really wished they would limit their lawmaking to areas where they have some expertise.