Of course it exists in Germany. If I say ‚Hello‘, I could not claim copyright on that sentence because it does not have the required schöpferische Höhe (threshold of originality). The sentence is simply not copyrightable, putting it into public domain.
Note that this is different from Gemeinfreiheit, where a copyrighted work essentially becomes public domain 70 years after the death of its creator.
As I understand the hole shebang, the German law is about "does the court think you are `hacking` something?" -- this is against the law.
Yes, there was one German pentester that got sued, because he reported a BASE64 encoded, hardcoded authentication token in an application.
Not that I would wish him anything like that and am ashamed by the outcome, I also recall that he might have tried to put pressure on the vendor by doing an interview with a blogger or so?
On the other hand, I do not know of any cases regarding publication of dual-use tools as OSS.
AT&T offers only a /25 here. But it's just a shell script, adjust to whatever your flavor is. You can hardcode in your own netmask, bits, and gateway without any issue.
