Editing Security features discussion on Brainstorm (section)

=New features=
==Passport information==
Have a field for a member to store in his passport information, ready to be sent to other member at a click of the mouse. Have the hosts to state if they require passport data before hosting. Have a field in references for "I verified his passport data".
==Group posts of this member==
Allow the user that want to have it displayed to have a link to all (or less) of their group posts.
==Visibility score==
From the assumption that an abuser would have a "sleeper" profile, put a feature that measures the online activity of a user (forum posts, chat...) and display on his profile.
==Pattern analysis==
Analyse the web pattern of people that dropped out after getting a negative reference (and that might be busy opening a new profile), there probably much to be learned.
==IP ban==
Though it's not totally accurate, but it can't be more accurate than doing nothing. The best would actually be to blacklist the suspicious IPs, and keep an eye on them, with a bot and volunteer.
==Trust score==
===Private friend management tool===

A couple of tools for people to organise their friend list, sort them in chronologically-met order, give them a "friendship score", tag them... all of that privately within the limit of their access (the friend doesn't know about it). There is already a step in that direction with the anonymous info given for every friend connection.

The goal is to feed a trust algorithm that would combine the data from all the existing security features in a 0 to 10 score. The beauty of it is that it would allow to use the confidential trust data and the private friend attributes without disclosing them. And would be a lot more reliable than public comments, where people chicken out of their true feeling for fear of retaliation.

To allow the algorithm to be implemented (ie. to avoid it disclosing private or confidential data):

- trust score should only take this sensible data in account after a certain amount of content has been submitted on a given member.

- When a new entry is made on a given user, it will go through the algorithm and, before it is "added" (or subtracted) to the existing trust score, it is given a coefficient equal to zero. So that it does not affect at all the trust score. This coefficient would then rise slowly in a random way and should equal 1 after a period between one and three months (or two other values). That way, it is very difficult to link the variations of the trust score to the comment of a given member.

==Victim relief service==
Having a service independant from MDST, with no actual power on profiles, to listen to people that believe they have been victim of abuse and eventually send the case to MDST. The image of almighty CS-police of MDST might prevent victims to contact them.