Belgium legalises ethical hacking • Hacker News Board

Re: Belgium legalises ethical hacking

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Post by meinheld111 » Mon, May 08, 2023, 7:31 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #19

jruohonen wrote: post #2

Some progress but with some notable weaknesses (a state institution determines whether public disclosure is appropriate).

Seems more than reasonable given that the law does not appear to exclude state institutions from being the target of hacking. If that provision did not exist you can bet the law would never apply to any security sensitive sector.

> If that provision did not exist you can bet the law would never apply to any security sensitive sector.

„Oh yeah, he is very sensitive in this regard. Please don’t Talk to him about his insecurities“

Re: Belgium legalises ethical hacking

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Post by andruby » Mon, May 08, 2023, 6:03 PM UTC

IMTDb wrote: post #47

andruby wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has a large datacenter there. (europe-west1)

eu-west-1 is in Ireland. There are no currently open availability zone in Belgium. Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-re...

That’s AWS you’re linking to. Google cloud europe-west1 is in St Ghislain, Belgium.

https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/

Re: Belgium legalises ethical hacking

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Post by andruby » Mon, May 08, 2023, 6:08 PM UTC

rascul wrote: post #69

WirelessGigabit wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the inverse seemingly works with regards to GDPR? If a Belgian citizen in Belgium hacks my US server they are not protected by this Belgian law. Yet if a Belgian citizen in Belgium visits my US server they are protected by GDPR? How does that work then?

> Yet if a Belgian citizen in Belgium visits my US server they are protected by GDPR? No, not if you and your server have no EU presence. There might be other reasons to comply, though.

Yes they are. If a US company provides a service to a EU citizen, they must comply with EU regulations.

If an EU company provides a service to a US citizen they must comply with US regulations (eg Sales Tax, etc)

Re: Belgium legalises ethical hacking

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Post by rascul » Mon, May 08, 2023, 8:29 PM UTC

andruby wrote: post #73

rascul wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yet if a Belgian citizen in Belgium visits my US server they are protected by GDPR? No, not if you and your server have no EU presence. There might be other reasons to comply, though.

Yes they are. If a US company provides a service to a EU citizen, they must comply with EU regulations. If an EU company provides a service to a US citizen they must comply with US regulations (eg Sales Tax, etc)

What you describe would be one of the "other reasons to comply" that I mentioned, where the EU can affect you and/or your business if you don't comply. Additional context was not provided so I made no assumptions.

An example: I don't have any legal obligation to the GDPR for my (hypothetical) US based blog as a US citizen, regardless of who visits it. But if I want to sell a t-shirt from the site, potentially to people in EU, failure to comply may result in the EU taking action to prevent me from doing business in the EU.