Thread: Scam profile protection plugin

Hi everyone,

We have released a Dolphin plugin for Anatoa, a collaborative fraud detection system, which is free to use if your website has less than 1000 member signups per month.

Please check it out - all feedback is welcome.

www.anatoa.com


Thanks
Anatoa

As long as you give Anatoa access to your database so they can pull all the member info they want and then re-sell it or spam it... Beyond that there are other issues...

Anatoa opens up your server up to corrupt files as they have no controls in place to watch for viruses and such on the files transfers, only against their own server...

I am strongly against this solution and will not be opening my servers up to them.

Dear TDZ,

Thank you for your response and interest taken in our system.

Any Dolphin plugin you choose to install can get access to member's data. To be 100% sure you must always study the source code of the plugin (the Dolphin plugin is available as 100% readable source code). The Anatoa plugin will use your member's IP address and username (not password) in the fraud check. Whether a readable email address is used is configurable. If you do not like to share your email address with us you can turn that off in the plugin's configuration page and it will fall back to using a one-way hash value generated from the email address instead (which basically means the email address cannot be read by us, but we will be able to match it agains the hash of other email addresses).

With regards to "opening up your server", there is nothing in our plugin which makes your server more vunerable to incoming connections. It simply acts as an industry standard SOAP client and makes a port 80 HTTP/SOAP request against the Anatoa server for every check performed. You do not need to make any changes to your server or firewall configuration and there is no increased security risk.

We do understand your concerns about member's privacy and are taking every measure we can to protect the effort you've made in building up your member database. Thanks again for your interest and we'll be very happy to answer any other questions you might have.


Best regards

Anatoa