Hacking will be made illegal...

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 24 '” Meet the world's newest
class of persecuted artists: computer hackers.
European Union nations, and perhaps even the
United States, are about to make nearly any form
of hacking '” even security research '” illegal by
treaty. The possibility scares a group of top
European computer security experts gathered in
Amsterdam this week so much that one declared,
'It's the witch hunt of the 21st century."