By: Tateru Nino
2 September, 2010
1. By and large, we didn’t learn to not put –gate on the end of things to signify a scandal.
You know, if it had been called the Watercock hotel instead of the Watergate hotel, the entire landscape of media for the last several decades would have been far different, or at least much funnier.
2. Most of us didn’t learn to get Linden Lab’s name right.
You’d think people would start getting that right eventually, wouldn’t you?
3. We didn’t learn to rethink our our basis for trust and for exercising caution and software hygiene when faced with the allure of shiny features.
Security professionals are doubtless still tearing their collective hair out over that, as they have for years.
So, give me all your money, while we’re on the subject, and maybe there could be a shiny feature in it for you… possibly. Thanks heaps!
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By: Tateru Nino
1 September, 2010
Fred Nile, Christian Democrat MP, apparently has more porn passing through his official PC than that of any other sitting member.
Current reports are silent on how this might compare to members that are more upright.
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By: Tateru Nino
30 August, 2010
There’s some talk and images circulating at the moment about the possibility that members of the Emerald developer viewer team may have gained administrative access to Second Life’s Vivox voice system through an exploit.
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By: Tateru Nino
30 August, 2010
Your local newspaper is always quick to report on some Internet site or other being a haven for perverts.
I think it’s actually jealousy.
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By: Tateru Nino
22 August, 2010
Okay, so Arabella Steadham resigned from the Emerald team last night, and was then not going to appear on Paisley Beebe’s show. Fractured Crystal, the perpetrator of the Emerald Viewer based distributed denial of service attack was then also not going to appear either.
Then a resignation from Crystal popped up for a few minutes, and then was deleted. Then it came back again somewhat later in the day, and the word was going around that Steadham would not be revoking her resignation. While all of this was going on, the Emerald viewer disappeared from Linden Lab’s third-party viewer directory.
It’s like Schrödinger’s Resignation. Resigned, unresigned, who the heck knew? That’s all recapped here. Now there’s more detail, thanks to Paisley Beebe.
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By: Tateru Nino
22 August, 2010
If you’re a user of the Emerald viewer, your computer was recently hijacked (along with half-a-million or so of your fellow Emerald users) to attack a Web-site on the Internet.
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By: Tateru Nino
17 August, 2010
According to Virtual Worlds News, Cyberwatch (an NSF-funded organization devoted to improving the quantity and quality of cyber-security professionals) is going to open up a space in Second Life to do their thing.
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By: Tateru Nino
17 August, 2010
I’ve been trying to figure out what, if anything, the Lab’s new viewer development model actually means in practical terms. Acta non verba and all that. Just because something is said to be better (or worse) doesn’t necessarily mean that it is.
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