The english IT newspaper «The Register» covers the german anti hacking tools legislation. The article focuses mainly on the fact that the law is mostly ill-considered and will harm the IT security industry severely.
The german IT news site Heise is blowing into the same horn. However, in an older article, Heise even accuses the federal council of not listening to critics during the hearings.
The media which are less focused on IT tended to ignore the new law entirely. Also, the repressions accompaning the G8 summit in Germany mostly passed by below the radar and got lost in the uproar of the doping scandal. Apparently, it just happened to be the right time.