[Fwd: Denial of Service and distributing hacking tools finally criminalised]

[Peter Tomlinson]

The article at http://www.out-law.com/page-9592

includes:

"The difficulty in the Act is that it says 'any item' and people are 
worried that that might include information about a piece of software's 
security vulnerability," Cambridge University security researcher Dr 
Richard Clayton previously told OUT-LAW.COM. "If you distribute 
information about a security vulnerability and the bad guys use it to 
attack it then the information about that vulnerability might qualify."

Peter