[sldev] Re: Texture bugs.

[Strife Onizuka]

I have to agree with you on this Argent. A regex whitelist & blacklist of
urls would be a good addition to your suggestion (Adblock?).

@Jason: You will find upon review, it is not security concerns but privacy
concerns that are slowing this down. Minimum browser security, means 'accept
everything.'

On 1/23/07, Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> > For HUDS, there's another issue: if you give away a freebie HUD with a
> > texture bug in it, you *know* that the prim owner is the person at that
> > IP address, so putting on a HUD would become like visiting a website
> > with your browser settings on minimum security. I think that there
> > should be three options:
>
> Minimum security?  I'm sure you do realize you get the IP address of
> your visitors regardless of their security settings.
>
> I think this whole discussion is silly.  IP addresses are not private
> information, end of story.  If you want to do anything on the net you
> have to expose it.  If you believe otherwise I guess you get scared when
> you see those banners about "Your computer is broadcasting your IP
> address, click here to fix it!".
>
> This reminds me of the "debate" on the name2key services.  It was silly
> then and it's silly now.
>
> Argent, to be honest I expected better from you.  You were the one that
> set me straight when I and others wanted a permissions dialog for
> llPushObject.  We don't need any more permissions dialogs crudding up
> our immersement.  That's what you said then, and it still holds true.
>
> I think, at most, there should be a tick box in preferences to "disable
> http texture fetching".  If someone is that paranoid, they can just look
> at gray goo.  Such a simple and greatly useful feature shouldn't be
> bogged down by bogus security concerns.
>
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