[sldev] Re: Texture bugs.

[Mathew Frank]

I am of the general opinion that textures for attachments (aside from 
HUD) should be disallowed.  Mostly because I can't seen an advantage.

Cheers,
Mathew


Strife Onizuka wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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