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Say 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 StoryIsabelle Helgerud — Post 6 Grrrrl
[Isabelle Helgerud was recommended to me by a reader and I am thrilled that she agreed to pose for us. I was also thrilled that she was willing to write for us in her native language, as I wanted to present the first Post 6 not published in English, to remind us of the many [...]
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 StoryKellie Ryba — Post 6 Grrrrl
[It’s an interesting thing that sometimes I hear from a prospective model, have a couple of initial conversations and then don’t hear from them again for weeks. Such was the case with Kellie Ryba. Finally, our schedules meshed enough that we got the following pictures, which I really hope do her justice. It is my [...]
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 StoryIslamist 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 [...]
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 [...]
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