Responsible disclosure of IT Vulnerabilities (Criminal liability) is the Ethereum Engineering Group’s part one of a two part series by Dr Adrian McCullagh.
Modern commercial software systems are very complex and as Bruce Schneire has stated on more than one occasion: “IT security is hard.”
IT security researchers continually poke and probe IT systems to identify any vulnerabilities in a myriad of commercial systems. This creates a 2 fold risk. The researchers do not want to be classified as a criminal hacker and secondly they do not want to be classified as an aider and abettor of some third party’s hack.
Consequently, it is imperative that researchers who do identify some vulnerability know when and how to legally disclose the identified vulnerability and thus reduce the risk of being prosecuted for their actions.
This presentation will disclose how a researcher can reduce the risk of being held criminally liable for any such disclosure.
🗓 Wednesday, May 20, 2026
🕔 Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM AEST
📍 Zoom call
✨ Ethereum Engineering Group is a meetup for software engineers, computer scientists, researchers, and technologists who want to understand the Ethereum platform and associated technologies. Since March 2020, the Ethereum Engineering Group meetup has been run via Zoom, online. The timing during the day of the meetup depends on who is talking and what part of the world they live in.