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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 [...]
Full StorySay It Ain’t So, D3adly — Avatars United Takes A Hit, Yet Again
You don’t hear much of d3adlyc0d3c lately, except on the comment sections of various blogs. You definitely don’t see him in Second Life. Did the deadly disease get the best of him and take his hacking career down? Not really, says D3adly. But he seems to have gotten “less” deadly, that’s for sure. Explaining that [...]
Full StoryDid 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 [...]
Full StoryEmerald 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 [...]
Full StorySquattin’ Life Part 4: Home Decor
by Pappy Enoch, Shiftless Bum With Good Taste Well, I done escaped the horrible fate my rotten sister Jezzybell done prepared for me. Now that she am out o’ the way for a few days, I can return to cornsiderin’ the finer points of prettying up your squat. Ol’ Squat 2.0 done hung in for [...]
Full StoryEmerald 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 [...]
Full StorySephora 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 [...]
Full StoryNicholas Mafia Patch Illicit Viewers — Trash Sephora Gang Site
The Linden Lab crackdown on third party viewers may be having unintended consequences — at least one in-world mafia has released a collection of what are claimed to be patched illicit viewers that can circumvent the Linden blocks on banned Second Life client software. Apparently, to be a gangsta means running a viewer with extra [...]
Full StoryPhoenix Power Outage Cripples Second Life – Blended Frappuccino Blamed
Geeks with a taste for blended frappuccinos may have been to blame for the Second Life crash that crippled the virtual world over the last 24 hours, according to Oskar Linden’s comments in the AWGroupies chat tonight. Oskar told the Herald that trouble started when the "phoenix datacenter had a complete power outage" and the [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worldwide Crash Takes Down Second Life
Serious problems apparently started in the Second Life virtual world at about 9 pm PDT Wednesday, and have continued over the last 6 hours, in what appears to have been a grid-wide crash of the world and associated services. As of this writing, Herald staff are unable to login to the world, and the Second [...]
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