#!/bin/the hacker's choice - THC Press Release

The Hacker's Choice, 4th September 2007, London, UK.

We surrender!

The German fraction of THC stops all activities that have been labeled illegal under new German anti hacker law. The law forbids German citizens to research, discuss or disclose security problems. THC is an independent non-commercial security research organization with over 10 years of experience.

For the past 10 years THC has been exposing fishy security in commercial products, informed the customer and pushed the companies towards stronger and better security, says a THC founder who does not want to be named.

Another German THC members was quoted as saying "[...] we were similar to what the ADAC is for cars: We made sure that what was labeled secure was indeed secure!"

When asked what kind of law the government should have passed a THC member responded that "there is no law that makes companies responsible for broken or insecure software. Anything can be labeled virus-safe or secure when in fact there is no security in the product whatsoever."

THC is the last of many research groups leaving Germany.

With no independent security research group left in Germany, its citizens are exposed to fraud, hoax security products and identity theft.

If you are living outside Germany and want to take over the development of the THC tools please contact us at members at thc dot org.

THC is now hosted on two servers: http://freeworld.thc.org is for international http://germany.thc.org is for German members who devote their time twiddling their thumbs.