Comments on: Peter Stindberg: Shared Media poses huge privacy risk

By: Darnell Thibadeau

Darnell Thibadeau — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:58:15 +0000

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By: Ona Claudio

Ona Claudio — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:49:20 +0000

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By: Ross Karter

Ross Karter — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:02:30 +0000

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By: Lucille Vasta

Lucille Vasta — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:50:40 +0000

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By: Foobar

Foobar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:28:10 +0000

lol – exactly!
This post is total bs and you are PARANOID, sir!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:33:49 +0000

Facebook games, maybe.

By: kesseret

kesseret — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:51:53 +0000

Oh dear God! You can play Flash on a primface in 2.0?!

WTF were they thinking?!

By: Lizzie Lexington

Lizzie Lexington — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:32:50 +0000

That was rude and uncalled for. He is expressing his beliefs. And even if you don’t agree with him it doesn’t justify this kind of response.

By: Loquacia

Loquacia — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:38:59 +0000

my IP location is a city with a million or so others, no exact pinpointing even to suburb. must say none of this is a worry to me.

By: Yeah Right

Yeah Right — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:15:21 +0000

Stindberg – you are a complete cock anyway. None of us are secure on the internet. Learn to deal with it, stop being so precious. Or you could do everyone a favour and just leave.

By: Jack Abraham

Jack Abraham — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:24:23 +0000

Peter, it’s even easier than you describe; with a modicum of scripting knowledge, your media prim can also scan the nearby avatars, removing the need for you to place the prim where only your victim will see it. You can then do some correlation between the harvested IPs and the nearby avatars; any time only one avatar is in range, you know with some certainty that avatar’s IP address.

Worse, you can play Flash on a prim face. People think of Flash as a video player, but in fact it’s a whole application framework, and has been the source of malware in the past. Proxying will not help you if the Flash application phones home with your IP address and potentially other personal information. With no automatic update mechanism to Flash, security vulnerabilities linger for years.

By: Peter Stindberg: Shared Media poses huge privacy risk | Shopping â€¦ | Portal site of Second Life and metaverse"MetaLog-meta log"

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:30:18 +0000

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By: kesseret

kesseret — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:15:25 +0000

@Blingtardette
It depends on what geolocation database is used. Mostly mine shows up as a city a couple hours away as well, but sometimes it is dead on balls.

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off topic:
You are not safe even in 1.0 thanks to parcel streaming media. I can set up a stream server and when you TP to my parcel and stream my parcel media I automatically have your IP address. I personally don’t stream media in SL b/c I can use the bandwidth elsewhere. I also don’t stream media on my parcel because I just am too lazy to find something to stream when I won’t listen to it.
I’ve never actively searched server logs except once- when I was required by subpoena.

Worry about social engineering. That has gotten people more info than IP address or anything else.

Just my 2L

By: Truth Sayer

Truth Sayer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:53:32 +0000

Let me add that someone that sought to be self prominent in SL as a hero really fucked up recently. The information published on the internet led me to a satellite picture of his house withing 60 seconds. As I looked at the dead grass in the yard and the shitty orange compact car in the driveway I felt really bad. Obviously this person’s life has been ruined by SL. But at least that person is not homeless yet as far as anyone knows.

SL ruins lives.

SL induces mental illnesses.

LL is incompetent and now apparently dedicated to exposing identities with this facebook crap.

SL & LL should be closed.

By: Truth Sayer

Truth Sayer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:47:53 +0000

So first person to write the web code to scare the shit out of internet noobs and gives the link away so people can put it on prims all over SL that have a warning to disable media and never buy from anyone that has shared media on their parcels wins.

By: Summer Haas

Summer Haas — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:32:11 +0000

“For hardcore security fans you can use a TOR-proxy as well, however sacrificing a lot of speed.”

Some proxies allow you to set up your computer itself so just certain ports are masked. In this case port 80 is website traffic. This would still give you full speed in SL and keep your web surfing within the viewer anonymous.

By: Blingtardette

Blingtardette — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:26:46 +0000

My IP address places me about an hour away from my actual location, and plops me into one of the biggest cities in the country. I can live with that.

And X is doing a very poor job of having a secret fashion blogger alt if she’s using the same browser for both. Wouldn’t she get sick of constantly swapping identities? Easier to assign one to IE and one to Firefox, I would think.

By: Peter Stindberg: Shared Media poses huge privacy risk | Shopping â€¦ | Portal site of Second Life and metaverse"MetaLog-meta log"

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:17:57 +0000

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