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- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:04:32 -0800 From: Rob Nelson <nexisentertainm...@gmail.com> To: Tigro Spottystripes <tigrospottystri...@gmail.com> Not to mention the many existing griefing apps that will continue to mask hardware-based IDs and completely ignore the LL TPV. :/ Thank you for the three-month extension, should give me plenty of time to work on changing all references of FlexLife to whatever the hell we decide on renaming to. The next time you guys do this sort of thing, try asking the community about it first before setting everything in stone. Changing brandnames may be easy for a company with 200 developers and a marketing team, but stuff like this takes smaller teams like Emerald, FlexLife, and Rainbow a much longer time to implement. Not all of us are huge megacorps like LL. Consider that before dropping a new policy on us without warning. Rob Nelson Lead Developer The Viewer Formerly Known as FlexLife On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 13:21 -0300, Tigro Spottystripes wrote: > actually, changing the MAC address of your network card is quite easy in > some cases (i've been using a custom MAC address for quite some time) > > On 24/2/2010 11:28, Scott McCulley wrote: >> Argent, > >> From a network standpoint, the mac address is a layer two address >> that is not seen when crossing a router to a new network. So, therer >> is no way to see your mac address from the network packets. LL is >> using the mac address as a unique identifier of your computer. When >> you use the SL viewer, it can read your mac address locally, then send >> it along to LL to be used to identify you on the grid. So if you have >> multiple accounts that you use from the same computer, they know it is >> you, no matter what your IP address, proxy server, or other network >> layer protection is used. > >> In the case of known griefers, LL could simply disable access from >> that mac address that is reported by the viewer, and the person cannot >> get back in to the grid, regardless of IP or SL account. The only way >> is to use a completely new computer with a different mac address. > >> That being said, if the developers mask the ability to read and report >> the mac address to the LL grid, they lose the abilit to block the bad >> guys. > >> -Scott > > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 24, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Argent Stonecutter >> <secret.arg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Admittedly this is not likely to be a common scenario, but the whole >>> idea that a MAC address is a unique identifier for a device is based >>> on a deep-seated confusion about the network stack. >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuFyrgACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmUMLACfdawsVxdug1i417EROcPVhUi0 Q/0An0Sq46pyI27iZuhmdj6YSiZlTCIa =gMvE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
