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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: The Hackers\, The Lawyers\, And The Defense Fund\n  
  When: Friday\, Aug 11\, 09:00 - 09:45 PDT\n   Where: Caesars Forum - Foru
 m - 130-134 - Track 3 - [1]Map\n   Speakers:Charley Snyder\,Hannah Zhao\,H
 arley Geiger\,Kurt Opsahl\,Miles\n   McCain\n\n   SpeakerBio:Charley Snyde
 r \, Head of Security Policy at Google\n   Charley serves as Head of Secur
 ity Policy at Google. In this role\,\n   Charley organizes Google's expert
 ise and technology to help solve the\n   world's pressing public policy ch
 allenges related to safety and\n   security online. Before joining Google\
 , he led vulnerability\n   management for a large financial institution\, 
 which included\n   responsibility for researcher engagement and bug bounty
  programs.\n   Previously\, Charley served in the United States government
 \, including\n   multiple roles in the Department of Defense\, where he he
 lped create\n   and manage the first U.S. government bug bounty program.\n
    Twitter: [2]@charley_snyder_\n\n   SpeakerBio:Hannah Zhao \, Staff Atto
 rney at Electronic Frontier\n   Foundation\n   Hannah is a staff attorney 
 at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.\n   She’s part of EFF’s Codersâ
 €™ Rights Project\, which seeks to\n   protect hackers\, security research
 ers\, and others through education\,\n   legal defense\, amicus briefs\, a
 nd involvement in the community with\n   the goal of promoting innovation 
 and safeguarding the rights of\n   curious tinkerers and hackers on the di
 gital frontier. She also works\n   on legal issues related to police techn
 ology\, surveillance\, and\n   cybersecurity.\n\n   SpeakerBio:Harley Geig
 er \, Counsel at Venable LLP\n   Harley Geiger is Counsel and Senior Direc
 tor at Venable\, LLP\, where he\n   leads the Security Research Legal Defe
 nse Fund and the Hacking Policy\n   Council and counsels clients on a vari
 ety of cybersecurity issues.\n   Prior to this\, Geiger was Senior Directo
 r for Public Policy at Rapid7\,\n   where he worked to expand adoption of 
 vulnerability disclosure and\n   legal protections for security research. 
 Geiger also worked as Senior\n   Legislative Counsel in the U.S. House of 
 Representatives\, where he\n   drafted Aaron’s Law\, and served as Advoc
 acy Director at the Center\n   for Democracy & Technology.\n   Twitter: [3
 ]@HarleyGeiger\n\n   SpeakerBio:Kurt Opsahl \, Associate General Counsel f
 or Cybersecurity\n   and Civil Liberties Policy at Filecoin Foundation\n  
  Kurt Opsahl is the Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and\n   Ci
 vil Liberties Policy for the Filecoin Foundation\, and a Special\n   Couns
 el to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Formerly\, Opsahl was\n   the De
 puty Executive Director and General Counsel of EFF. Opsahl was\n   also th
 e lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project\, and continues to\n   assis
 t EFF with that work as a Special Counsel. In 2007\, Opsahl was\n   named 
 as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer\n   magazine. F
 rom 2014 to 2022\, Opsahl served on the USENIX Board of\n   Directors. Ops
 ahl is a member of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory\n   Committee’s Techn
 ical Advisory Council.\n   Twitter: [4]@KurtOpsahl\n\n   SpeakerBio:Miles 
 McCain \, Student at Stanford University\n   Miles McCain is a student at 
 Stanford University\, security researcher\,\n   and open source software d
 eveloper. He and his friends were once\n   threatened with legal action fo
 r responsibly disclosing a security\n   vulnerability in their classmatesâ
 €™ startup. He has previously worked\n   on election security at CISA\, pr
 ivacy at Apple\, and trust and safety\n   at the Stanford Internet Observa
 tory. Miles is a member of the Recurse\n   Center.\n   Twitter: [5]@MilesM
 cCain\n\n   Description:\n   The hacker community has long conducted impor
 tant security research\n   that skates the edge of legality. This has led 
 to charges and\n   lawsuits\, bogus and serious alike\, against hackers. I
 n this panel\,\n   we’ll hear from a hacker that faced legal challenges\
 , we’ll\n   describe what legal counseling for hackers looks like in pra
 ctice\, and\n   we’ll discuss a new resource for the hacker community: t
 he Security\n   Research Legal Defense Fund.\n\n   Legal issues can arise 
 for good faith hackers because computer or\n   software owners want to pre
 vent security research or vulnerability\n   disclosure. Security researche
 rs have rights and defenses against\n   legal claims\, but don’t always 
 have access to representation or\n   resources to defend themselves. EFF p
 rovides free legal counseling\,\n   ideally in advance of security researc
 hers conducting their work so\n   they can steer clear of problematic acti
 vity or at least mitigate the\n   risk of legal threats. In litigation\, E
 FF tries to find cases that\n   will advance legal rights for the entire c
 ommunity\, but many\n   individuals will need representation even when the
 ir particular cases\n   will not have a broader impact. In those cases\, E
 FF endeavors to refer\n   people to cooperating counsel\, which can be dif
 ficult if funds are not\n   available.\n\n   What is it like\, as a hacker
 \, to face legal threats? What are the\n   common ways hackers encounter l
 egal threats? When that happens\, what\n   should hackers do? What is it r
 eally like to provide legal\n   representation to hackers? Are there areas
  of the world with greater\n   or lesser access to legal rights and repres
 entation? What resources\n   can hackers leverage to protect themselves\, 
 their rights\, and others\n   in the community? Join us and find out!\n\n 
   REFERENCES\n         1) Stanford student vulnerability disclosure\, 2021
 . 2) MBTA vs.\n         Anderson\, 2008. 3) US Department of Justice Compu
 ter 2022 Fraud\n         and Abuse Act charging policy. 4) Librarian of Co
 ngress good\n         faith security research exception to DMCA Section 12
 01. 5)\n         Disclose.io 6) SecurityResearchLegalDefenseFund.org\n\n  
  '\n\n   1. #CaesarsForumBR\n   2. https://twitter.com/charley_snyder_\n  
  3. https://twitter.com/HarleyGeiger\n   4. https://twitter.com/KurtOpsahl
 \n   5. https://twitter.com/MilesMcCain\n\n\n
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LOCATION:DC - Caesars Forum - Forum - 130-134 - Track 3
SUMMARY:The Hackers\, The Lawyers\, And The Defense Fund
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