[opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?
Will
wdemauro at verizon.net
Sun Aug 22 12:19:25 PDT 2010
They may be waiting to make a formal announcement before they pull the plug
on the viewer- didn't they make a policy of not allowing any viewer to
connect that wasn't on the list? I think so-
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From: "Gareth Nelson" <gareth at garethnelson.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:50 PM
To: "Lance Corrimal" <Lance.Corrimal at eregion.de>
Cc: <opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com>
Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is
the policy worth anything?
> As they shouldn't be!
> Although one does wonder whether users are now at risk of being banned
> if they keep using it
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Lance Corrimal
> <Lance.Corrimal at eregion.de> wrote:
>> Am Sunday 22 August 2010 schrieb L. Christopher Bird:
>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Jesse Barnett <jessesa at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> > Ignoring this and giving the all clear with no other action taken
>>> > on the part of Linden Lab will instead demonstrate that the TPV
>>> > is a worthless scrap of paper.
>>>
>>> Correction, it only exist on paper if printed. The proper phrase is
>>> "a worthless configuration of pixels"
>>>
>>> The TPVP makes it clear what the consequences are for breaking the
>>> policy. 8c says:
>>>
>>> "If a Third-Party Viewer or your use or distribution of it violates
>>> this Policy or any Linden Lab policy, your permission to access
>>> Second Life using the Third-Party Viewer shall terminate
>>> automatically. You acknowledge and agree that we may require you
>>> to stop using or distributing a Third-Party Viewer for accessing
>>> Second Life if we determine that there is a violation."
>>>
>>> So either the lab will enforce this, or they will say "Well you are
>>> so popular you can screw around all you want". Is Emerald the
>>> viewer "too big to fail"?
>>>
>>> -- ZenMondo
>>
>> I just looked and emerald's not in the tpv directory anymore.
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