[bop-devel] BOP-FraudPrevention ?

[Ivan Kohler]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:39:56PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> So I'm sure you've noticed that most of the providers have fraud 
> detection and prevention options.  I'm sure you've also noticed that 
> these options are often $100/month or more.  I've been testing out 
> several of these packages, and I'm less and less convinced that there is 
> any serious mojo in them.  They appear to be simple tests against 
> hit/miss ratio combined with query/time period.
> 
> In short, we can do this.  I'd like to make this functionality freely 
> available, so that they are forced to provide some real value for the 
> fairly excessive cost.  Meanwhile, give all of us the benefit of fraud 
> protection for free ;-)
> 
> Anyone else interested in this project, or am I doing it myself?

See Business::FraudDetect for the framework.

I don't have the cycles for any code contributions in the near future, 
sorry.  Hell, I don't even have the cycles to move the base B:OP along 
as fast as I'd like, let alone help with something new.  :)

It does seem to me that you haven't considered the non-technical hurdles 
in offering a distributed fraud detection database.  Getting the legal 
framework in place for people to share checksums with a central 
non-profit seems like a larger amount of work than writing some roughly 
working code.

-- 
_ivan