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

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 09-Jul-2007, at 23:30, Chance Unknown wrote:
> i got your IP the minute you visited my hosted website. so your  
> issue with "privacy" is what?

The difference is that I visited... that is, I made a specific and  
conscious decision to visit, your website.

That's exactly the *current* situation in SL. If Alice visits  
Mallory's parcel (website), and doesn't do anything to hide (like  
turning off streaming audio), then Mallory can get Alice's address.

The situation with web textures would be that Mallory could get  
Alice's IP address even if Alice never visited any of Mallory's  
"websites", and even if none of the people whose "websites" she does  
visit is in collusion with Mallory.

This would be like an Internet where I could put "web bugs" on  
microsoft.com and Microsoft could do nothing about it.