Prohibition of `Hacker Tools' in Germany

As heise writes, the German government plans to criminalize what they call `hacker tools' (if they already use such a misleading term, why not `haxor toolz'?). This is yet another example that impressingly shows that politicians know nothing about the Internet world; we all have already learned that the Internet is a set of tubes.

This would be like sueing Heckler & Koch for manufacturing a weapon that was used to shoot a police officer.The CCC has a good writeup, why this criminalization is bad.

As they say, they just want to realize a new EU directive; but this one is going way to far. Since I am working in the Computer Security industry and already had to develop proof of concept malware in the past for heise, so they could test some AV, I am directly affected by this.

I will try to actively fight this law and already dropped an eMail to my local MdB (however I doubt, this will change anything -- my belief in democracy was lost long ago).