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    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! As customers or service users, our past experiences and our beliefs about a company, its support, products and services are frequently more important than the present actualities. Why? Because it’s what we believe to be true that drives our decisions, rather than what is actually true. You know, I’m not sure that you can. The more I dig into this, the less I think so. Or at least, not without a whole heck of a lot more work.
The somewhat ironic result here, is that if Linden Lab had not made this special deal with Emerald, it is likely that Emerald would still be around today. Lyons (whom I believe was the QA person for the Emerald viewer team) has resigned, and also revealed the final two requirements that the Emerald viewer must meet by Friday this week. Lyons declares the viewer to be functionally dead.
Howard Look is… or perhaps it would be more appropriate to say was, Linden Lab’s Senior Vice President of Consumer Applications. Paisley Beebe rounded up some awesome guests over the weekend, specifically Carl Metropolitan and Mitch Wagner. 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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