[opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

[Brian McGroarty]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Thomas Grimshaw <tom at streamsense.net> wrote:
>  Loading 1mb of content per user is hardly a denial of service attack.
> Crosslinking occurs everywhere on the web, this is simply nothing but
> paranoid bull.

"Crosslinking" drops the context of hiding gibberish requests to a
critic's website in a hidden frame that will never be revealed to the
user. This isn't a mere hyperlink to another page or naively stealing
someone else's image hosting.

My read (but I'm no lawyer) is that this looks like 2.d.iii of
http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php and we're already having that
discussion. If anyone can come up with specific reasons why this might
have had legitimate reason to be there, or how this one could be yet
another oversight or mistake, that would be helpful. I sure haven't
heard any to date.

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Brian McGroarty | Linden Lab
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