To Those who always wondered why I never connected my grid to the hypergrid.
Inu.
On 11/15/2012 3:26 PM, Snowcrash Short wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Melanie <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
On 15/11/2012 19:33, Snowcrash Short wrote:
> Closed source is just another word for security through
obscurity, which we
> - hopefully - all know really doesn't provide any security. [...]
Closed source means that it's not trivially possible to modify the
tool to assume the open policy for all grids and then put the
modified tool in the wild for all and sundry to abuse.
Most existing tools are either hacking tools sold through dubious
channels, difficult to use or lack important features. There is to
this day no free, widely available, open source, easy to use content
ripping tool. Your project is bound to become that tool if it is
released as open source.
There is no if about it, the code is ready for release, currently I'm
working on a windows installer and documentation. Initially the code
will be released under AGPL, once the code base is more mature I
intend to change the licence to BSD.
I have decided to wait for two weeks after my initial announcement,
because I wanted to give grid operators a heads up before releasing
the code.
> Atleast it will be very simple for the administrator to
determine if assets
> are being duplicated, especially if MyInventory is being used in
a mode
> where it accesses the asset service directly.
No closed grid will ever be able to provide direct asset service
connections because these also allow to extract any and all content,
in full quality and without restrictions. This would include script
sources - an unacceptable situation.
Not really, it would be almost trivial to implement an asset service
which restricted access to assets, at least in a non hyper-grid
scenario. The only worry would be rouge simulators which could be
attached to an existing grid.
On a similar note it would almost as easy to implement a fully
distributed asset server, which retrieved assets from the users local
asset store, "My Suitcase" is clearly an example that such a scheme is
not only feasible but almost fully implemented in the existing code
base. The only question is whether grid operators are willing to
surrender control of assets, and leave those assets to be the
responsibility of the visiting users. This distributed asset store,
where asset are fetched from individual users' asset stores would very
likely - and counter intuitively - be the one that offered the
greatest amount of protection against asset theft compared to a
hypergrid enabled grids asset store.
/Snowcrash
- Melanie
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