Second Life continues to suffer from serious denial of service attacks. There was another one yesterday (Monday), according to Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture. This comes in spite of Linden Lab’s claim to focus on improving security.

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One thing though, we don’t have “sort of anti-negativity lockdown”, neither on the forums nor blog. Anti-abuse, towards Lindens and Residents? Yes. One valuable thing is all the harsh-but-well-meaning criticism we’ve been getting, and in particular recently, I’ve made sure that gets heard on the blog.

There are a lot of really brilliant people out there who want the best for us but are frustrated seeing us slip, it’s like watching a growing baby repeatedly smash their head into the floor. Very painful to see someone or something you care about go through redundant agony, *especially* in light of all the turbulent, horrible experiences lately.

More insights re: priorities in this forum post by Kelly Linden:

http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?p=1292330#post1292330

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Stronger defenses and object blacklists coming soon

by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk

“Work I already did will be locked and loaded for emergency deploy,” said Linden Lab code cowboy Andrew Linden yesterday. [...]

Second Life resident Pixeleen Mistral, the latest star correpondent to grace the pages of the Second Life Herald, has a great interview in the Herald today with Linden Lab code jock Andrew Linden, in which he talks about new security measures being …