Duane: I'm a second year student at the Harvard Business School. Prior to coming back to school for my MBA I was the co-founder of something called Project Honey Pot (www.projecthoneypot.org). Project Honey Pot tracks malicious behavior online. We work with law enforcement agencies worldwide and have been instrumental in several of the high profile cases shutting down spam gangs and other online criminals.
Generally, Project Honey Pot has operated as a public service project with contributions from members in more than 120 countries around the world. Talking with some of the entrepreneurial faculty around HBS I'm being coaxed into believing that there's a potentially interesting and disruptive business opportunity that could be spun off of the Project's data in order to protect websites. They're very interested in making the introductions to get this idea funded. Imagine something like a CDN for any website with the benefits of advanced, threat-based firewall++ protection. I've poked around with my technical team from Project Honey Pot as well as some CS friends I have over at MIT. Squid has repeatedly come up as a potential base platform onto which we could build the layers of the service. I was wondering if in the process of managing the Squid development these days you'd run across any talented, eager programmers who might be searching for a startup opportunity that has significant backing, a large market opportunity, and where they could play a meaningful role in growing a new company. I'm agnostic as to geographic locations so long as the person is talented and self-motivated. If any names spring to mind, I hope you won't hesitate shooting them my way. Best wishes, Matthew Prince. Email: matthew -at- mba2009 -dot- hbs -dot- edu