I hate to say this but, it has nothing to do with who they are focusing the attack on its is the fact that they used there users machines with out there consent, this is a clear violation of US law and can be investigated by FBI/NSA with punishment up to 10 years in jail, not to mention a clear violation of the TOS.
But i guess that is the way that i see it. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by Douglas Adams On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Discrete Dreamscape < discrete.dreamsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, I prefer to remember him as: > > 1) The guy who hacked Emerald's servers before discovering the data > storage issue and > > 2) The active developer of a malicious viewer under the lolguise of > promoting exploit/bugfixing. > > But hey, they keep antagonizing him, so of course this kind of thing > continues. > > > Discrete > > > On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Brian McGroarty <s...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Discrete Dreamscape > > <discrete.dreamsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This was one person's decision, and was deliberately done for the sole > >> purpose of messing with the owner of the victim site (although I'd > >> hardly call the particular individual a victim). Regardless, the team > >> was pretty disappointed. The one person currently owns all parts of > >> Emerald's hosting, so it was their decision, albeit a ridiculous one. > >> They don't take the project seriously, and it's more than a little > >> embarrassing to the rest of the people associated with the team that > >> this kind of thing keeps happening, over and over again. > > > > Appreciated - it's helpful to have this put plainly and publicly. > > > > Am I right that the target server belongs to the guy who: > > > > 1) Was interviewed in a previous blog write-up about the IP & username > > database and geolocation tool that he sought to show was built up for > > Emerald Point visitors, Insilico visitors, and people creating > > accounts via the Modular Systems website? > > > > 2) Demonstrated that Emerald wasn't removing usernames from paths > > before embedding them in textures even after the team's first > > attempted fix? > > > > I know we already talked to the team and set some conditions after the > > first one. The second one's been explained as a mistake that Modular > > Systems would be willing to publicly acknowledge and correct - the > > potential for collecting usernames would have to be in the viewer's > > privacy policy otherwise, and it isn't to date. But that one of these > > incidents was history and the second was supposed to be a mistake made > > the hidden request activity all the more confusing. > > > > -- > > Brian McGroarty | Linden Lab > > Sent from my Newton MP2100 via acoustic coupler > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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