What is Safe Harbor?

Most anti-hacking laws pre-date the idea of hacking for good, or the “digital locksmiths” who increasingly shape modern digital safety.

Those laws get used to suppress good-faith research and limit bad publicity for vendors. The result is a “chilling effect” that silences the very people the Internet most needs to hear from. If hackers are the Internet’s immune system, the Internet still has an auto-immune problem.

Safe Harbor is language added to a policy that lets people acting in good faith, as the recipient defines it, report security issues without fear of legal repercussions.

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