Crime Wave Thwarted in Second Life

Ponca City, We Love You writes "The Mercury News reports that a vulnerability in the way Second Life protects a user's money has been identified. Risks for users are reportedly limited because the researchers say the flaw can be quickly patched. The flaw exploits a known problem with Apple's QuickTime - when a virtual character passes by an infected object planted by hackers, the Second Life software activates QuickTime so it can play the video or picture. Hackers can direct the Second Life software to a malicious Web site that then allows them to 'take over the user's avatar and force it to hand over its Linden cash. Second Life is recommending that users disable streaming video playback in the Second Life viewer except when you are attending a known and trusted venue.' The hack raises tough questions for operators of virtual worlds. Should they be as secure as banks and guarantee the safety of money and property that characters in the world possess?"

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[SmallFurryCreature]

Can I tell you a little secret about life? It is pointless.

You are born, you die. In between you have to work a lot of hours to... well to postpone the dying part or at least make the dying part less unpleasant.

Luckily, in the west we have become good enough at postponing death that we have some spare hours in our days. So we got to waste them, some watch sports, some have sex, some read books and some play games.

It is ALL useless.

Blogging got to rank near the top of most useless activities and as such you are in no position to critize second life players. You are a pot, so keep quiet about the color of kettles.

I wish people were a little bit more honest about their personal time wasters. Friend of mine follows all the soccer tournaments in the world, yet thinks playing games is a waste of time. Eheh.

Stop blogging mate and save the world or accept that you are wasting your time just as much as people who care about some silly online game.