On 2010-03-12, at 09:58, Dickson, Mike (ISS Software) wrote: > That's not what it does. > > Streaming media (and media on a prim) is enabled on by default as > opposed to the old viewer where it was off and needed to be > explicitly enabled. There are pros and cons to either approach of > course. And it is a beta. This is an area I'm sure LL would > appreciate some feedback since it's a new feature/extension of an > existing one.
Oh, that's a lot less dire. Thank you. I still think that * Streaming media and media on a prim should be OFF by default. * When enabled, there should be a warning that this may expose you to privacy and security exploits. I don't think that the SL client should be considered as secure and reliable an environment as a web browser: it's much larger and more complex and there have been indirect attacks on the viewer (eg, map- bombing) even though the SL servers act as a fairly good application level proxy firewall between users. People shouldn't be accessing potentially untrusted URLs from the client without explicit action. _______________________________________________ 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
