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Op/Ed: Barrett Brown Prosecutor Inadvertently Indicts Criminal Justice System

by Biff Baker, Prosecutors Gone Wild! ™ Desk In a recent article here in the Herald, Urizenus Sklar argued that the US Attorney in the Barrett Brown case was attempting to smear Barrett by listing a whole number of allegedly bad attributes of Barrett and then publishing them in a public court document.   I [...]

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FBI Summer Reading List!

Barrett Brown Yes, summer is winding down, but it isn’t too late to cram in some late late summer reading.  And who better to suggest good solid reading, but the FBI.  Dell Cameron, writing in the Daily Dot, has the goods.  He gives us the 20 online publications concerning Barrett Brown that the prosecution considers [...]

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Barrett Brown Calls and the Herald Answers!

Barrett Brown Last week I was on the Herald Yacht, steaming towards the Herald retirement villa in the Turks and Caicos islands, when the emergency phone rang in the ready room. Helmut, my trusty cabin boy summoned me. Barrett Brown was calling. Mr. Brown, for those of you who don’t know, is currently in federal [...]

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zf 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 [...]

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Project Exodus

The OpenSim plot thickens… by Kaffe McMahon (Originally published in the Swashbuccateer on Jan. 3, 2009) Project Exodus (no it is not Charlton Heston does Second Life)- this project has been purportedly on the drawing boards of Linden Labs for over 6 months, prior to the new Land Pricing Policy. The plan was to enhance [...]

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SHOCK!!! PN Attacked Role Play Sim!!!

Legion of Justice superheros to abandon base due to LL OpenSpace price hikes Real JLU base still safe by Xamol Recently an article was written that claimed the Justice League Unlimited Base was attacked by two PN members on January 1st 2009. The article was based off photos given and a video posted on YouTube [...]

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Sim Crash Featured In Torley Linden’s Holiday Film Special

PN Griefer attack's aftermath confuses Linden film maker by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media/Film critic “Technically its not off line – I’m right here… ohhh I don’t have a good feeling about this… hahahahaha … oh… what are those particles?…. this is just so surreal…where is everyone?” – Torley Linden The Holidays wouldn’t be complete without [...]

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All the News That’s Fit to Whip

Prim Time with Keiko Ketsugo Premieres Oriental Express, Second Life (194, 235, 24) November 27, 2007: Want the latest news in the virtual world of Second Life – Raw, naked and bound – with whip marks? Step into Castle Prim for the premiere of “Prim* Time” anchored by Keiko Ketsugo which captures (literally) top Second [...]

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Beware: Paintball Firing Furries

by Jessica Holyoke Only in SL can you start with dead hookers, then move up to virtual hookers I watched the CSI:NY episode “Down the Rabbit Hole”. Which if you are in some other form of hole, you would know is part one of the CSI:NY Second Life episodes. Part one aired Wednesday, part two [...]

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“Information Wants to Be Free”

iDubrovnik and ibackofCoryLinden’sneck. By Prokofy Neva, Wender of the Way Through the Tekkie-Wiki Woo So I drop in on the iCommons Dubrovnik summit — virtual version — on the Annenberg Island (still more tomorrow), and Judy Collins is drooning on the sound track. Granola crunches under my feet and what’s that — patchouli scent on [...]

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