[sldev] Re: "But your IP wouldn't be safe"

Argent Stonecutter secret.argent at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 13:35:32 PDT 2007


> Mallory just uses the the Parcel Media Stream to set a specific URL  
> call for
> Alice and gets her IP without any fuss or muss or any changes to  
> the current
> SL codebase.... as long as Alice isn't on Linux.

That only works if:

a. Alice visits a parcel that Mallory owns, and
b. Alice has media streaming on.

The original scenario would only require that Mallory *or* a scripted  
object controlled by Mallory be able to get into draw distance of  
Alice. That scripted object could be an object on land owned by  
Mallory, an object Mallory leaves in land with build set and no  
autoreturn, an object on land owned by any group Mallory is in...  
including any malls he rents space on, OR an object that Mallory  
passes out as a transferrable freebie containing a no-mod script.

This means that:

a. The potential exposure is several decimal orders of magnitude  
greater unless Mallory is a Land Baron *and* is willing to devote the  
media streams of all Mallory's land to the search, and even then  
there's multiple decimal orders of magnitude greater exposure via web  
textures than media streams.
b. Alice has no effective countermeasure within an unmodified client.

"But your IP wouldn't be safe" is *not* a straw man argument.


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