[sldev] Re: Texture Bugs

[Gigs Taggart]

On 1/25/07, Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> to pass within draw distance of a prim; involuntary, opt-out,
> unlimited in scope, and happening in the normal course of events.
>
> The only widely used services I can think of that share information
> this promiscuously predate TCP/IP.



You mean like HTML inline images?


Establishing some unobtrusive and conservative limits on information
> release through HTTP textures would be no more than tracking common
> practice on the Internet as a whole. Consider:



Unobtrusive and conservative is not what you are suggesting.   A checkbox in
preferences is unobtrusive and conservative.


* Java applets can only connect back to the site they were downloaded
> from.
> * Browsers not allowing third-party cookies.
> * Mail clients not downloading images from external sites.
> * Browsers not downloading images from external sites.
>

Browsers DO download images from external sites, by default.  It's never on
a site by site basis like you claim.

Java applet security is not a good example of anything, it's probably the
most ill-concieved mess ever.  In case you haven't noticed, no one uses Java
applets anymore.
Images in mail are not a necessary component of what the application is
designed for.
Third party cookies are not a necessary component of what the application is
designed for.
Those things are disabled because there is little legitimate use for them.
When there is vast legitimate use, no one cares.

Go to:
http://secondlife.com/developers/consultants.php

What's this?  A load of offsite inline images.  Standard practice.  No one
cares.


> Update the ToS to mention that your IP is revealed in certain
> > circumstances
>
> That would describe the current situation. What we're talking about
> here would be more like "Update the ToS to mention that by connecting
> to SL you are making the IP address of your account public information."
>


That is not necessary.  The IP address of your account already is public
information.
  Anyone who knows what an IP address is, and what it does, already knows
this.
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