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Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR
my only concern is who is collecting the $ and why should I trust them
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Originally Posted by Bama
My first thought questions to pose would be:
- What do you plan to do with the donated money?
- Why?
- What purpose would that serve?
- What difference do you think you could make?
- What steps would you take to implement that plan?
- Who would be in charge of implementing that plan?
- What experience does that person have?
- Other than donating funds, what part would other webmasters have to play in the success of the plan?
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I will elaberate on this and I appreciate lanceman trying to generate interest.
This is an idea that I just threw out there, it wasn't thought about for days, bounced off of others, etc... So nothing is set in stone. Off the top of my head this is what I think.
The person or entity incharge of handling the money would have to be someone you can trust just like you trust ccbill to hold your money they collect from all the charges spent on your membership site. The person / entity would have to be trusted without a doubt by everyone. I don't think who is as important as long as the person or entity fits the standard mentioned above.
What to do with the money? Research and education. Hire someone full time to research and investigate the various different types of spyware programs that are running out there, starting with the ones that appear to be doing the most damage. Identify how they work, which sponsors use them, and try to develop ways to fight them. If possible, work with anti virus software companies and share info with them and see if they can include updates that would clean people's pcs from which ever spyware trojan was attacking us. I would have to think if the spyware is not apparent to the end user and it only fucks affiliates that there is a good chance norton, spybot search and destroy, etc.. don't have it included in the software.
I think the WHY? and What purpose would that serve ? were answered above as well.
Steps to impliment plan/who would be in charge, etc..: Have a board of 5 - 6 people elected by their peers to help set this up. Get an attorney involved to make sure everything is set up 100% legally with safe gaurds, find out what can be said what can't be said, etc... Locate a company or individual to do the work, Contact others like Ben Elderman to help provide information or anything he can share with us.
Other than donating funds, what part would other webmasters have to play in the success of the plan? Reporting any spyware they come across, reading the information that is gathered and posted on the site. I would hope people would stay away from companies that are found to support spyware but that would be a decission for each individual to make.
Please don't drill me on my replies, these are ideas I am throwing on the table which if someone has a better idea or way to do it please share, but if you have nothig but negativity to post, please don't waste your time.