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Monkey Business and a Hot Date
Breedable-Monkey Army in the Works by Pappy Enoch, Hillbilly Go-rilla Ol’ Hamlet Au, over there at New Fake World Notes, am all a-flutter about sum’fin called Zooby Breedable Monkeys. From the photygraph I done run, you can see, plain as the nose on the side o’ my head, that them monkeys am born as naughty [...]
Full StoryzFire Xue and Redzone Collide with Banhammer
Tuesday evening Soft Linden ventured in-world to delete zFire Xue’s merchandise after banning Mr. Xue from Second Life. Word spread quickly and a crowd of zf Redzone critics gathered at the empty Mad Sci City Shopping Mall to witness the historic event. When I visited, the sim had reached its capacity – 40 avatars slowly [...]
Full StoryzFire Xue Slams Redzone Enemies
Threatens critics with animal control – hopes for security system to delete accounts Controversial zf Redzone developer zFire Xue told me he believes that Linden Lab has failed to provide Second Life players with an adequate security system, saying "DMCAs take too long, stolen objects are passed off to alts, Linden Labs does nothing to [...]
Full Storyzf Redzone Security Breached – SL Passwords Compromised?
Is Redzone playing guessing games with 2200 customers’ SL passwords? The firestorm of criticism surrounding the zf Redzone Second Life security system may be only the beginning of zFire Xue’s troubles. A shadowy group of Second Life hactivists claim to have breached the Redzone server’s security, gaining access to the server database and discovering cleartext [...]
Full StoryzFire Xue Interview: RedZone is not Spyware
RedZone protects users from 77283 people they have banned plus their alts The zF RedZone security scanner scandal continues to churn, creating what seems to be a nearly unstoppable epic thread in the SL Universe forums which has grown to over 320 pages (8100 posts) as of this writing. At the heart of the controversy [...]
Full StoryRedZone Circles the Drain
Everyone who isn’t spoofing their IP, mac, or volume serial ID… leave Unmistakable signs of FAIL hover over zFire Xue’s controversial RedZone “security” device after Linden Lab amended the community standards Thursday to require player permission before alt account information can be shared inside Second Life. RedZone has been marketed as an anti-copybot and anti-griefing [...]
Full StoryJimbo Quality and the RedZone of Danger
by Jimbo Quality Jimbo Quality and the RedZone Danger Zone I was the only one in the Herald’s Jessie Bunker Bureau when a call came in on the hot story tip line. The conversation went something like this. Caller: Look, you guys really should do a story on this Red Zone thing. Jimbo Quality: Call [...]
Full StoryRedZone HUD Forced To Ask to Reveal Alt Accounts
by Justine Babii On July 30 of last year, a user known as Helena asked the SLUniverse forums the following question: “I would just like to ask who is truly concerned about this product on Xstreet now more than ever. Please Lets not turn this into a big Slandering Debate, or a Flame, or /B/ [...]
Full StoryDo the Prokonova – SL’s Next Dance Craze?
Chantal Harvey and Phaylen Fairchild broke out the chroma key – and busted some moves – in an instant classic YouTube response to serial google bomber and internet bully Prokofy Neva’s recent whinescraper. The video’s credits detail the gestures that make up Chantal and Phaylen’s dance routine, including Funnyfarm, Do you take it in the [...]
Full StoryPlastic Duck Returns To Second Life!!!
Linden Lab reinstates iconic grid crasher’s account “Plastic Duck hasn’t returned, Plastic Duck never dissapeared I just got my vanity plates back ” – Plastic Duck Could an era of universal peace and understanding in Second Life be dawning? Did Linden Lab actually reverse a perma-ban on one the most colorful residents of the metaverse? [...]
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