Archive for 'Mafias, Gangs and Virtual Governments'

Emerald In Disgrace!!! Philip Linden Warns Against Malicious Viewer!!!

Philip Linden took pen in hand today to warn Second Life players the controversial Emerald Viewer has been removed from the official list of third party viewers stating "We will not tolerate a viewer that includes malicious code, nor will we tolerate development teams with a history of violating users’ trust or disrupting their lives" [...]

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Emerald Flack Arabella Steadham: “I Don’t Lie”

Protip: killing reporters makes you look bad On my first visit to Emerald Point Friday night, I was killed by an unknown assailant within a minute of sitting down with the Emerald developers. I had dropped by hoping for comments from Emerald gang spokeswoman Arabella Steadham, and was pleased to see also in attendance several [...]

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Kal Cartier Says Nicholas Is Not A “Mafia”

…but still admits to some mischief As our readers know, there has been a recent surge of mafia activities in and around Second Life as gang activities have been more in the foreground of late. Last week, I met with two of the prominent members of Nicholas, Kal Cartier, the current commander in chief of [...]

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1-8-7 Family Owns Carona Mafia

Another classic Second Life mafia showdown is playing out both inside Second Life and on YouTube. The conflict apparently started in early May when the Carona Mafia issued a video warning that they have been “watching closely” since the Nicholas and Sephora gang wars broke out and plan to strike soon.  Although the video claims, [...]

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Is One Song Making a Comeback in Second Life?

Has One Song, the leader of the notorious Associates gang and infamous architect of the Second Jessie War, returned to Second Life? In a surprising development, five years after the Second Jessie War, Karl Fredericks found a mysterious Associates gang calling card owned by OneSong Solo at the Reichstag in Jessie sim. Reichstag being torched [...]

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Did Linden Lab’s Emerald Dev Coverup Lead To Woodbury Ban?

An attempted coverup of the leaked ModularSystems.com datamine database connecting IP addresses and Second Life avatars names may have been to blame for Linden Lab’s mass ban of the Soviet Woodbury faction and deletion of Woodbury University’s Second Life assets, according to chat logs provided to the Herald. As previously reported, a group of Second [...]

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Emerald Dev’s Modular Systems Data Mine Tracks 16,740 Avatars

Documents recently leaked from the ModularSystems.com web site include a dump of a secret “datamine” data base containing over 39,000 entries tracking 16,740 Second Life players, detailing avatar name, avatar key, and IP address. The database was apparently populated between early January and April 2010, based on the timestamps found in the leaked dump. Fractured [...]

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Emerald Site Security Broken! Data Mining Shocks Linden Lab!!!

According to documents that appear to have been leaked from ModularSystems, the developers of the “Emerald” Second Life viewer have compiled a database of avatar names, IP addresses, and geo-location information for players who created Second Life accounts at the ModularSystems.com site. In addition, visitors to the developers’ land in the virtual world have been [...]

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Sephora Mafia Means Business – Challenges Nicholas Family

The Nicholas and Sephora mafia war continued over the weekend – a conflict fought with YouTube videos, Second Life client hacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, SQL injection exploits and web site security vulnerabilities — a sort of Internet-enabled alternate reality game for hackers with bragging rights among the families of Second Life at [...]

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Islamist Gangs Terrorize Facebook!

The biggest MMO of them all – Facebook – is being terrorized by gangs of Islamists, filing mass abuse reports against those they target for removal according to ReadWriteWeb. Using tactics similar to those of the Justice League Unlimited, a notorious Second Life vigilante group, the Islamists "single out users they consider ideologically unorthodox (a [...]

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