In today 20 minutes Newspapers used the Astra spokesman Thomas Rohrbach a rather silly analogy: In connection with allegedly illegal Radar detectors based on GPS, he said: "Even people who have overcome a jewelry store, can thus evade arrest." Besides the fact that each technology has sun and shadow sides, and thus some potential for abuse, offers this statement is quite simply not acceptable: Can such persons are not shown by means of a legally available road map on the forest paths (ie every 25 000 plan) of resist arrest? Or take a simple off-road vehicle across country? Should we not also ban all national maps of all Swisstopo and SUVs? This weird logic, should we not much more technologies and the ban on media? How would the Astra enforce these prohibitions, then? Today can be equipped Pocket PC with a GPS receiver. With the appropriate software that is either a legal or illegal device. How can this be controlled? These technologies have much more potential than risks, with bans, we not only prevent any legal use, but also punish an entire industry, which developed this technology and sold. In addition, the real criminals one bit will take care of such bans.
Note: Technology-based prohibitions are neither enforceable nor worthy of a modern constitutional state.
The stupidest Example of such an attempt, to circumvent the prohibitions are copy protection mechanisms. For a non-functioning technology is protected by the state. That is about the same as if the state would simply prescribe that the Emperor is wearing the finest clothes. Problem solved? I think not.
