Fixing the Internet's Auto-Immune Problem - Chloe Messdaghi

Full Title: Fixing the Internet's Auto-Immune Problem: Bilateral Safe Harbor for Good-Faith Hackers Thousands of organizations have already adopted the idea of inviting good-faith hacking to hack into their systems via vulnerability disclosure, bug bounty and next-gen pen test programs. Even so, the risk of prosecution under anti-hacking laws still casts a cloud over the hackers who are trying to help, and many programs haven't removed this risk by including Safe Harbor language within their program policies. It's not intentional -- the simple truth is that the market has progressed so rapidly that most have implemented crowdsourced security programs without realizing this issue, nor do they know how to how to fix it. Bilateral Safe Harbor language enables program owners to not only provide a strong incentive for good-faith hackers in terms of explicit legal protection, but also to outline exactly what constitutes "good-faith" hacking for their organization, and leave legal protections against malicious hackers intact.