Comments on: Sussy McBride Robbed of L$12 In Broad Daylight!

By: Bllinders Off

Bllinders Off — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:46:40 +0000

Is the video fake? Most likely. Does the fact that LL told everyone about this exploit make them “not responsible”? Hardly likely. Any company that knowingly allows a potentially dangerous exploit to remain unchecked (what, since Quicktime 4.0? And now it’s at 7+?) cannot claim innocence. In RL this is called “criminal negligence” and is a CRIMINAL, not a civil action.

LL allows a known exploit to continue to exist on their system that they know can harm their customers. Instead of shutting down Quicktime or hiring a competent programmer for the one day it would take to switch to another video system… they allow it to continue. They are therefore culpable.

Staged video or not, it demonstrates the problem. What if instead of L$12 it had been L$1200… and what if it had been YOUR avatar that got ripped?

Think about it people. Wake up. SL seems full of anarchy-driven internet zombies that regularly lose touch with reality. LL has admitted this exploit exists. They have failed to take steps to stop it. Duh.

By: Maria Leveaux

Maria Leveaux — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:16:12 +0000

LL made it QUITE Clear why they didn’t Disable Quicktime in SL, they didn’t want to Impact those HONEST businesses and Sims that are dependant upon it, what they DID do was warn people If they were concerned, to Turn it off from their End unless they were in some area they trusted. I Know Because they Attached the Warning to a Mock TOS update so everyone would have to READ it, and Acknowledge it BEFORE entering SL.

The OP is just asking Why a Construction Company didn’t put up SIGNSs telling her Not to Climb over the Yellow Danger Tape to prevent her from dropping in a Hole.

A Warning was given, and Ignored, and the Inevitable happened. Don’t Blame LL because someone Chose to be Obtuse.

Maria.

By: nightlife Overlord

nightlife Overlord — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:50:57 +0000

I also believe that if the issue was about a glitch that allows hackers to force anyone to a media stream not of their choosing and also doing it without going into their land, then LL would have turned off video in the entire grid.

By: nightlife Overlord

nightlife Overlord — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:30:12 +0000

Arthur, quoting from LL’s blog post, this is how they put it:
“We do recommend that you employ caution when using QuickTime in Second Life, only enabling it in environments that you trust, and are familiar with.”

And of course its always necessary to control access to your land limit access, building and scripting only to trusted people in your group.

What is the other LL media glitch?

By: Noelyci Ingmann

Noelyci Ingmann — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:45:26 +0000

Tag Pixeleen, you’re it now! Thought you might have fun with this.

By: Arthur Fermi

Arthur Fermi — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:11:16 +0000

I like how you were on top of this, I reported about the live exploit 2 days ago. But you are missing another point, there is also an LL media glitch that can force you to a media stream not of your choosing. So even if you are on “safe” land that might not be the case, that is why LL said disable your media.

By: nightlife Overlord

nightlife Overlord — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:38:08 +0000

True this video was just a DEMO by the researchers seeking attention. Using this exploit to steal lindens is not sensible. Its completely tracable and no way to get away with actual real dollars. It will leave a trace. So this one remains only in theory, but there many other more sensible things that can be done with the exploit. The two researchers were just seeking attention and they used stealing lindens as a shocking enough headline to get everyone attention.

The bigger threat is outside sl, a porn site have been found to re-direct users to urls that serve the exploit. it then downloads a hacking tool on your computer, giving hackers access to your machine. But your anti-virus notably Symantec and Trend Micro will be able to detect and delete it.

In sl as in the web, the best thing to do for now is to only access videos and websites that is trusted.

In sl, get your video from trusted sources.
http://myslhometv.blogspot.com/2007/11/quicktime-expoit-is-video-safe-in-sl.html

There is a real threat in sl so watch video only in your parcel or in the one of people you trust. Disable auto-loading web profiles.

Visit only websites that you trust. update your anti-virus, they are able to detect and delete most implementations of the exploit so far.

A good start is to add the following to your browser as RESTRICTED SITES. To deny your browser access to these sites:
85.255.117.212,
85.255.117.213,
216.255.183.59,
69.50.190.135,
58.65.238.116,
208.113.154.34
2005-search.com,
1800-search.com,
search-biz.org
ourvoyeur.net

these are websites already found to be serving the exploit detected by Symantec and Trend Micro.

By: Dear Herald, People are too Dumb to Get the Joke( plus it is a serious issue)

Dear Herald, People are too Dumb to Get the Joke( plus it is a serious issue) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:12:22 +0000

erm Stacy, that’s part of the hack. You’re MADE to say ‘I got hacked’, you don’t type it! See…Stacy proves not everyone is aware of this hack. SLH should have done this story properly. BTW Read the Linden blog about this, Stacy.

By: Mr. Fishy

Mr. Fishy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:28:44 +0000

Get a clue.

http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/takahashi/2007/11/30/exclusive-hackers-say-they-can-pick-pockets-of-characters-in-second-life-virtual-world/
http://www.securityevaluators.com/sl/

By: Darien Caldwell

Darien Caldwell — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:47:36 +0000

Geez, just when I thought SLH was getting some integrity back, they knowingly post fraudulent news. In RL the editor would be fired, and never work again.