[opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

[Tigro Spottystripes]

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I thought cookies weren't shared between accounts even in the same
machine...are you sure they are?

On 5/5/2010 17:28, Thomas Shikami wrote:
> Bryon Ruxton schrieb:
>> Can't we just get an additional AGENT_VIEWER flag via llGetAgentInfo?
>> Even if not foolproof, it's useful as a factor for legitimate security or
>> warning tools, as well as for stats gathering for 99% of residents.
>> It seems like a logical solution to me, instead of having to go the http
>> agent route or other hackish solutions.
>>   
> Making the http trick obsolete is a good step forward in ensuring 
> privacy and maybe a step forward to some LSL policy. Like TPV policy was 
> a start to stop copybot development/distribution. When will LSL being 
> policed about what can be done? LSL can also be used to replicate prim 
> parameters and export/import. And newer tools abusing the llParcelMedia 
> commands can be used to get the IP address of the users and they allow 
> planting cookies into the viewers, that are shared between all accounts.
> 
> Don't get me wrong on here. The hypothetical scenery I'm thinking about 
> is a stalker being friends with a land owner, tracking down the alts of 
> myself to grief me. I am not against banning on the viewer identity. 
> Though alt account information is no one's business until LL makes that 
> information available.
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