Comments on: Dead Pop Stars, 9/11 Terrorist IDs — Second Life Adult Verification?

By: quietscream21

quietscream21 — Sat, 21 May 2011 14:37:06 +0000

Heyy.. uhm i need your help guyz. Uhm just want to ask where can I get their informations.. For example elvis, mohamed atta, Tupac Shakkur… I really need you help.. Thanks

By: mr whippy

mr whippy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:20:38 +0000

adolf hitler worked well for a while

By: ProteusPater

ProteusPater — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:15:24 +0000

My son “Proteus Hand” got by the age verification process and is now addicted to SL( 9 to 15 hours/day). Whe we interveined to limit his time online he became violent and ran away from home.

I have contacted Linden with his information. They informed me that they will possibly ban all accounts currently on his friends list or in association with his account one they verify the information. Tat could effect as many as 200 accounts, many of them innocent. It is the nuclear option so to speak but when faced with possible liability and legal ramifications, it may be the lesser of two evils for LL.

By: LOL

LOL — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:38:37 +0000

@Baeric Constantine

Good points you bring up here. Infact Facebook is now being vetted by the canadian Gov’t for it extremly lax stance for protecting Canadian’s Personal Information. The Gov’t of Canada is even going as far to say that Facebook is in breech of international and canadian Law by keeping Information like Drivers Lisence info, SIN #’s and Passport info in a database who’s security has been challanged. Facebook even admits that it keeps the data after a User deleted thier account. I do not think it will take the canadian Gov’t long to discover just how pathetic a job Linden Lab is doing to ensure canadian’s Privacy and security of person.

By: Baeric Constantine

Baeric Constantine — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:52:35 +0000

Naturally, a site such as Second Life, Facebook, MySpace etc… or any other form of social networking site (twitter included), all require that the person signing up attests that, as mootykips states “…information is true and factual and represents your true identity…” However, the line needs to be drawn between privacy and security of self, which is not addressed here. It is fact that social networking sites are the targets of identity thieves and articles such as “Identity theft from Facebook enough to jail cyber crims” posted in the daily telegraph testify to this fact (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/identity-theft-from-facebook-enough-to-jail-cyber-crims/story-e6freuy9-1225748412148). As for it not being LL’s job to prove a person is lying, LL do have a duty of care to exercise to every other user within LL which they are failing in miserably. This is one area.

The age verification is in fact in direct contravention of several legal systems… and how do they actually verify my data against a system? I do not think that this method of verification is sufficient. Facebook have been to court of inadequate security measures… perhaps its SL’s turn?

By: At0m0 Beerbaum

At0m0 Beerbaum — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:02:04 +0000

@Jenny Fallopias

You GREATLY underestimate the stupidity of our government and the people who work for homeland security.

Then there are the TSA officials who will detain people for inane reasons, and get confused and angry if they’re asked simple questions such as “why am I being detained?”

By: mootykips

mootykips — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:24:13 +0000

general drama: there is never a bad time to be Yasser Arafat okay.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:42:38 +0000

Think of age verification as the same thing as checking that little “I agree” box that someone spoke of, but a bit more complex. By having the additional information, LL can look into troublesome accounts and attempt to decipher not so much “who” the person is but how old they are, and what access they should have, and currently have. I know there have been cases of people using names like “elvis” and whatnot on voting forms, so why then would this come as such a shock to people?

It’s like lying on your tax form, you might not get caught if you don’t make yourself known or earn too much money. But if you cause trouble, or make a lot of money, the government is going to snatch you up for tax evasion. Same with this age verification crap

By: General Drama

General Drama — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:16:23 +0000

Oh you mean 14 year old Turkey Yip didn’t need to talk his mom into verifying his account under her ID? Good thing Turkey only spends PART of the week in the furry sex clubs. But is the user during that time the 14 year old or his mother? I guess thats a question left to the Amherst, NH Dept of Child Protective Services….

BTW: Mooty, aren’t you 18 by now?

FWIW, I am looking forward to the day when LL deletes the 5,000 accounts owned by Mohammad Atta, the 15,000 accounts owned by Michael Jackson, the 7,000 accounts owned by Elvis Presley, etc etc and all the land and space bux held by the idiots who verified with the same info as thousands of other people. Giving false ID like that is stupid.

Smart individuals know that the proper way to create a fake ID is to go to small towns, look up in the newspapers from 21+ years ago in the local library archives for obits of babies/children born elsewhere who died locally (preferably born in another state or country). You then pay a PI to find out if the kid had an SSN (likely not as they werent required back then for underagers), and either get it, or track down the birth certificate and apply for one. Once you have the SSN, you can get a DL, passport, etc. all entirely valid.

By: Jenny Fallopias

Jenny Fallopias — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:16:28 +0000

“Have fun explaining why you’re not really Mohamed Atta when Homeland Security comes knocking. Or should I say comes battering down your door. ”

How about: “I’m not really Mohamed Atta because he’s dead.”

You fucking idiot.