Loading 1mb of content per user is hardly a denial of service attack. Crosslinking occurs everywhere on the web, this is simply nothing but paranoid bull.
I'm not a big fan of the Emerald team either, they're arrogant, two-faced, cast themselves as elitists, and censor comments on their website that don't speak in their favour. But if you're going to make such accusations, do some research on exactly how much traffic is required to negatively impact a server (at least, one that's hosted on a proper connection). Tom. On 21/08/2010 14:40, Aidan Thornton wrote: > The attack involved loading about 1 MB of images and a whole bunch of > dynamically-generated > content from the Emerald login screen displayed every time a user > opened Emerald to consume both bandwidth and server CPU time. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
