Archive for 'Scammers, Griefers and Goons'
This is for you Gene! Pat the Rat and Uri Out Anonymous!
Special to the Herald by Pat the Rat and Urizenus Sklar Anonymous feebly attempts to out-tongue the leader of the Kiss army. Pat the Rat and I were sitting around doing shots of cough syrup with whippet chasers when Gene Simons called: "Uri baby, I need you to do a solid for me". "Sure thing [...]
Full StoryWhy Does Jeanne Whalen Have a Hardon for Julian Assange?
Little did I realize when I began to investigate this story that I would fall into another interwebs rabbit hole ™. It seems that this was not the first time Whalen has engaged in a disinformtion campaign against Assange and Wikileaks, and thanks to John Young of Cryptome we have an inside look at the desperation of her methods (Young trolls her and the WSJ for good measure). We are left to ask, who is this woman working for?
Full StoryHacktivism, Governance, and Copyright Debates 4chan Style
Operation Payback follows The Wrong Hands vs Justice League Unlimited script Terra Nova is the term used to describe our weird existence in the digital realm that we call virtual worlds. Edward Castronova claims that we are in the process of exodus to these worlds. Equally interesting to note is that, as new worlds, our [...]
Full StoryUS Government Hits 73,000 Blogs With Ban Stick
by IntLibber Brautigan In a blatant show of force against a host of more than 73,000 wordpress blogs, the US Government ordered BurstNet Technologies to take down the server of Blogetery.com for repeated acts of abuse of intellectual property and insufficient respect for the DMCA. According to a story on TorrentFreak, the owner/renter of the [...]
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 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 StoryEmerald Viewer: 76000 Unique Users Could Be Wrong
Earlier this evening, lead Emerald viewer developer Fractured Crystal claimed that 76,000 unique users run the Emerald client – a significant portion of the active Second Life community and clear indication that the Emerald viewer is the most popular alternative to the official Second Life client software. But ongoing rumors of questionable conduct on the [...]
Full StoryVirtual Vigilantes – Eggheads Are Watching the Watchers
Over at at Henry Jenkins blog and MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media site, part one of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar’s think piece Watching the Watchers: Power and Politics in Second Life traces the evolution of both the online world griefing phenomena and the virtual security operations that have emerged to counter griefers. Posting the [...]
Full StoryWorlds Collide at Virtual Pet Memorial Service
by MIllennium Sands, Urban Riots Desk Danny06 Aya is a grown up guy in First Life, but in Second Life he’s a boy. His real life typist suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and it seems likely that his avatar reflects the true state of the way he experiences his life. When Danny06 Aya’s [...]
Full StoryAuto-Bans For Copybot Clients – SL Viewer Wars Escalate
Skills Hak's client detection system & ban relay fights copybot-capable clients – Transylvania vampires warn against running griefer clients by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs Desk Taking Second Life anti-copying software as a service in a new direction, Skills Hak has released a client detection and ban relay system which Hak says "detects all known viewers [...]
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