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

[Chance Unknown]

i got your IP the minute you visited my hosted website. so your issue with
"privacy" is what?

On 7/9/07, Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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