The Emerald login screen is still under the control of the same people
right now. These people are recently banned from SL and more than likely
holding personal vendettas. Of course it needs to be blocked theres a
genuine threat there. Maybe not in the main code of the viewer but
definately on the login screen.
If LL didn't act and something happened to people using Emerald the law
suites would be heading the way of the real corporation with real money and
a duty to protect it's customers.
On , Harold Brown <labrat...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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