Berkman Luncheon Series >
19
2011
The Hacker's Aegis - Protecting Hackers From Lawyers
Derek Bambauer of Brooklyn Law School & Oliver Day
Tuesday, July 19, 12:30 pm
Berkman
Center, 23 Everett
Street, second floor
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attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
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event will be webcast
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Research on software security vulnerabilities is a valuable example of peer production. However, hackers are often threatened with intellectual property lawsuits by companies who want to keep flaws secret. Oliver Day and Derek Bambauer propose a liability shield for security research to improve cybersecurity in a world dependent on cloud computing and mobile platforms. Come debate whether hackers are whistleblowers, and how legal immunity affects security when cyberweapons like Stuxnet are increasingly available.
About Derek
Derek Bambauer teaches Internet law and intellectual property and
publishes articles on intellectual property, information control, and
health law. He has also written technical articles on data recovery and
fault tolerance, and on deployment of software upgrades. He has
presented on issues including spam and Internet filtering in both
technical and policy settings, model laws for spam regulation, and
China’s online controls. He is also one of the authors of Info/Law, a
popular blog that addresses Internet law, intellectual property, and
information law.
A former principal systems engineer at Lotus Development Corp. (part of
IBM), Professor Bambauer spent two years as a Research Fellow at the
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. At
Berkman, he was a member of the OpenNet Initiative, an academic
consortium that tests and studies Internet censorship in countries such
as China, Iran and Vietnam.
About Oliver
Oliver Day is a senior security researcher for Internet titan Akamai where he is focused on web based malware such as Drive By Downloads. He is intent on integrating biostatistical and epidemiological models into modern network security practice and policy making. He was formerly a security researcher at Stopbadware.org where he helped build the infrastructure to monitor reports of infections across the Internet and distill them into actionable reports. Previous to Stopbadware Oliver was a principal security consultant with @stake (then acquired by Symantec) and an engineer with eEye Digital Security. Oliver graudated from the Harvard School of Extension with concentrations in legal studies and Chinese studies. His thesis and subsequent academic work have been focused on finding suitable mathematical models to predict the spread of web based malware. He also likes to interact with the cyberlaw community and is a strong advocate for the disclosure process and shielding for security researchers.
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