verbraucherinfo-org
Hi Folks,
I`m trying to set-up a new consumer-information page around Internet-Fraud / Subscription Traps in Germany as one very useful site (verbraucherabzocke.info) which has warned by telling names of the companys and their staff, telling bank-accounts, etc. recently has to close because there webmasters (even old webmaster which actualy has nothing to do with the site any longer!) were heavyly sued by the fraud-companys for different reasons (e.g. "Competition Protection Act [= Wettbewerbsrecht], damage to someones reputation, etc.).
Because the information about the fraudulent companys and their staff can change quickly and all sites and persons should be linked together but still should be easily to search for as well as an additional shield (alongside of: anonymous hosting on www.prq.se [Sweden-Host which also has hosted WikiLeaks and is well known for protecting the real webmaster], etc.) against law-suits claiming the webmaster I think the best solution is to use a Wiki-Software for hosting: Inter-Linking is easily done, information can be added quickly and last but not least (if for any case the anonymous webmaster will be found) the webmaster always can say "I did not post this information personally; I just provide a technical plattform" and maybe "Sorry, I can not tell anything about who has posted this entry as we did not log anything".
BUT I also discoverd at least 2 problems / disadvantages for my project by using a Wiki:
1) For startup-phase and maybe even after that - depending on if there will build up a safety-community wich consist of enough people in a timely manner - if everybody is allowed to edit this will lead to changes from the fraud-companies to disinform people, delete entrys, change entrys, malform entrys, and so on! (Just that you get a glue: The old webmasters of verbraucherabzocke.info also received death threat against their persons and swiftboating about them, etc.)
Therefore it would be necessary (or "nice to have"?) to avoid unseen/unchecked changes, edits, and so on which leads to the "feature" to have a possibility to approve the submissions I think (even in start-up-phase!)
>> I will use the poblish-plugin as a solution for this!
2) Normally - what I know from Wikipedia - Wiki Software will recently track IP-Adresses to track users and/or un-registered edits. For any "leaking"-plattform this is not ideal for reasons of protection of the source-persons. Mainly useful information will be known (and maybe as well as hopefully posted/shared) by insiders or maybe posted by persons who are not allowed to do so (e.g. banking-clerks sharing/posting new bank-account from any of the fraud-companies has registered with their bank and maybe the status of the account, like "cancelation planned", "already canceled", etc.)
>> Is there any solution for turning off IP-Logging - or at least: not showing the IP to the public - without any problems/malfunction happening with this?
Greetings,
verbraucherinfo.org-Administration aka. MacGyver