Actually, I prefer to remember him as: 1) The guy who hacked Emerald's servers before discovering the data storage issue and
2) The active developer of a malicious viewer under the lolguise of promoting exploit/bugfixing. But hey, they keep antagonizing him, so of course this kind of thing continues. Discrete On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Brian McGroarty <s...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Discrete Dreamscape > <discrete.dreamsc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This was one person's decision, and was deliberately done for the sole >> purpose of messing with the owner of the victim site (although I'd >> hardly call the particular individual a victim). Regardless, the team >> was pretty disappointed. The one person currently owns all parts of >> Emerald's hosting, so it was their decision, albeit a ridiculous one. >> They don't take the project seriously, and it's more than a little >> embarrassing to the rest of the people associated with the team that >> this kind of thing keeps happening, over and over again. > > Appreciated - it's helpful to have this put plainly and publicly. > > Am I right that the target server belongs to the guy who: > > 1) Was interviewed in a previous blog write-up about the IP & username > database and geolocation tool that he sought to show was built up for > Emerald Point visitors, Insilico visitors, and people creating > accounts via the Modular Systems website? > > 2) Demonstrated that Emerald wasn't removing usernames from paths > before embedding them in textures even after the team's first > attempted fix? > > I know we already talked to the team and set some conditions after the > first one. The second one's been explained as a mistake that Modular > Systems would be willing to publicly acknowledge and correct - the > potential for collecting usernames would have to be in the viewer's > privacy policy otherwise, and it isn't to date. But that one of these > incidents was history and the second was supposed to be a mistake made > the hidden request activity all the more confusing. > > -- > Brian McGroarty | Linden Lab > Sent from my Newton MP2100 via acoustic coupler _______________________________________________ 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
