Germany basically banned all "hacking tools." "Hacking tools" are not defined. This is having a spectacularly destructive impact on computer security research world wide as German resources become unavailable and people are starting to avoid traveling there. (Image from this story.)

I will be traveling to Frankfurt on Friday to attend a class @ Sabre security, so it will be very interesting to see if I have to sign any paper work, or how terms in the class will actually be phrased...