Anonymous whistle blower system with reputation reporting of anonymous whistle blowers

摘要

#$%^&*AU2012100470A420120607.pdf#####ABSTRACT Reputations of anonymous sources of information are managed by associating the reputations with devices from which the information is received rather than from the human individuals using those devices. The devices are recognized using a one-way identifier, such as a digital fingerprint, such that the source device cannot be used to readily identify the source device or its user(s) but all items of information received from the same source device can be readily recognized. Feedback from other devices is accumulated and used to assess trustworthiness of the source device and reputation data representing such trustworthiness is published along with the information received from the source device.2/5 200 CLIENT DEVICE SERVER 102 110 COMPOSE 202 INCIDENT REPORT GENERATE 204 DIGITAL20 FINGERPRINT SEND REPORT WITH CLIENT DEVICE N DIGITAL FINGERPRINT 208 RETRIEVE REPUTATION DATA FOR THE CLIENT DEVICE PUBLISH THE REPORT WITH 210 THE REPUTATION OF THE CLIENT DEVICE FIGURE 2