ANY Secondlife Viewer could be used for the exact same type of DDoS attack. Even more so the 2.0 viewers with Media on a Prim.
The DDoS was from a webpage with hidden images being called from another site. Not from the clients being used as a Bot network. In this case it just happened to be the Viewer login screen. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Maya Remblai <snowfox...@dragonkeepcreations.com> wrote: > Oh for crying out loud...Emerald DID cause a DDoS attack, which is a > CRIME. It also collected information about users that it shouldn't have. > Those are facts that LL is aware of. It's a dangerous piece of software > and has no right to connect to the grid now. I used to use Emerald, and > not many people advocated it more than me, but now I won't touch it > because I know it's dangerous. LL did the right thing, and I'm impressed > that they had the guts to do it at all. There was nothing personal or > political about it. I do hope that LL will learn from the drama though, > and get their act together with viewer work in general. > > End of story. Go find another TPV and get on when your life. Most TPVs > have the same feature set as Emerald now anyway, like temp uploads and > useful radar. > > Maya > _______________________________________________ > 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
