People can make an atomic microscope at home. What makes people think that limiting "hacking tools", or basically knowledge about how hackers will attack us, will help?
Is linux a hacking tool? Wireshark? Where is the line drawn and how is it defined. This is something else.
Oh great, another regulation/law to allow government the arbitrary exercise of power, to be used to selectively target whoever they disagree with or believe to be against their interests in maintaining power.
No, it is a law they selectively enforce very rarely on targets who they don't have anything else on. Having broken the law has 0 impact on if they choose to try to enforce the law against you; that is instead determined by completely unrelated and behavior they know they aren't currently able to ban.
I don't see how any limits would be possible without violating the constitution. I mean I could take the source code to any hacking tool, incorporate that into a sci-fi story with a hacker who types it on the screen, at which point the US government would have to prevent me from publishing a fiction story - something that must clearly violate the US constitution.
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