The policy is worth NOTHING. let me quote from the emerald details page:
"To file a ticket, please visit the Second Life Support Portal and click on New Ticket Submission. On the ticket page, select Ticket Type: Viewer Directory, and fill in the fields that appear." Guess what, the new, improved ticket system does not have a ticket type with that name. It also does not have any discernible ticket type to tell LL that something's missing from the website, nor does it have a ticket type "Other". On the other hand, it takes months to get a TPV listed by now, for reasons unknown. bye, LC Am Saturday 21 August 2010 schrieb Aidan Thornton: > You may recall that the Emerald viewer has been leaking potentially > privacy-infringing information - specifically, the directory to > which it's been installed, which in some cases includes usernames > - in encrypted form in baked textures. You may also recall that > the developers lied and said the issue was fixed, when really they > just leaked the same data but with stronger encryption to hide it > better. > > Well, it turns out that the Emerald developers have been using > their viewer to launch a Distributed Denial of Service attack on > the website of the person who discovered this[1]. 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.[2] This served no purpose other > than to try and DoS the server - none of the loaded content was > visible or used. The Emerald developers have even admitted as > much, though they're trying to spin it interestingly[3]. (Their > explanation is total bullshit - if they just wanted to make a > point about the number of Emerald users rather than attack the > server, loading a single file would do.) > > Now, this is of course entirely in violation of the TPV policy, > which forbids certain content - including DoS attacks - within > third party viewers. The question is, does the Lab care and will > they even remove the viewer in question from the TPV directory? > > [1] > http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/47885-emera > ld-problem-conspiracy-theory-3.html#post997824 [2] See > http://pastebin.ca/1921405 for a copy of the actual code. [3] > http://blog.modularsystems.sl/2010/08/20/shenanigans/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
