[sldev] Re: Texture bugs.

[Strife Onizuka]

We had a similar problem on the forums where people were freaking out over a
users signature which contained an image, that was dynamically generated to
make stupid comments and included the requesters IP address. The eventual it
was decided that nothing was going to be done about it.

There are a few things that could be done to mitigate this issue.
First one that comes to mind is land based access lists, groups could be
included (anyone who wasn't on a property list would be added to a 3rd party
list that the user could at their leisure allow, users could similarly mute
users they don't like so not to see their images)
It's not perfect but it would work.
Attachments etc would be a complicating factor.
Url filter would be nice too.
More discussion on what security measures should be put in place is needed.

(forgot to reply to the list the first time ^^;)

On 1/23/07, Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Jason wrote:
> > Regarding web bugs, media URLs are just as trivial to use to
> > collect IPs.
>
> Yes, I've already had to calm down one person in SL freaking out
> about media bugs (see my previous message about content creators).
> There's a huge difference between using media bugs and texture bugs
> for this purpose, and that is you have to be a landowner to use media
> bugs, you can't change them quickly, and they're only useful for
> people who actually visit your property. With texture bugs you could
> put one in an almost invisible part of an attachment behind a 1%
> alpha texture overlay and change it every few seconds, and collect
> information everywhere you go.
>
> You could even put them in scripted freebies and get hundreds of
> newbies serving as innocent collectors.
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