Internet Generativity

Harnessing the Generative Internet to Fight Badware

The generativity of the internet is its greatest strength, and also its greatest weakness. How can we harness the collective power of generativity to combat the uglier side of what openness brings to the net? StopBadware aims to use community action to fight badware. How have other groups used, are currently using, and could potentially use the Internet's generativity to help protect users from malware and related issues?

Coordinated by: StopBadware team (esp. Max & Erica)

Potential panelists (this is brainstorm, no invites or confirmations yet):

• JZ as moderator
• someone from a security vendor - possibly someone from Trend Micro or Alex Eckelberry from Sunbelt
• maybe someone from Google - Eric Davis?
• perhaps a member of Cult of the Dead Cow (a gray-hat hacking group)
• perhaps Jimmy Wales or someone else successful at harnessing Internet crowds
• (perhaps someone from Digital Natives or Second Life, etc.)
• Paul Laudanski from CastleCops
• someone from SiteAdvisor
• Jeff Williams

Questions for discussion:

• What is already being done to use mass collaboration against badware?
• What can we learn from other issues and groups using crowdsourcing?