On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: > If encryptions is banned LL can give up the idea of being accepted as a > tool for serius work. Any work done for my company or a client of it > have to be protected from interception by a thirdparty listener. This > includes Linden Labs. > > For example in a public company there is laws requieing that information > that could be used my the market are not published just to some people, > it have to be given to the public in a controlled and tracabe way. Talk > about new pruducts, new clients. All fall into this category. I hope > this idea is droped really soon.
>From an in-world meeting I understood that the encrypted chat bothers the team that has to deal with abuse reports... So, this isn't about just chat, it's about PRIVATE chat (IM's, not local chat, for which no encryption is being used) in combination with an AR. Hence, at least three people are involved: A) someone sending an encrypted message to B. B) someone receiving the encrypted message from A. C) someone sending an Abuse Report related to this PRIVATE message. Lets analyse this: 1) C != A and C != B. Then how the hell did C know about the private message in the first place? Aparently, the private message is *assumed* (by LL) to contain proof that the abuse really happened. But clearly it is out-of-band (a private message between A and B has nothing directly to do with whatever can bother C). Hence, their frustration is ungrounded. EVEN if we assume for a moment that this private communication would contain proof, than demanding NOT to use encryption won't solve anything, because A and B can use any other channel for this: voice, skype, IRC, etc. 2) C == A or C == B. Tell C not to use encryption or not to send ARs. If an abuse related to private chat cannot be verified because C willingly is using encryption, then what is the problem? The frustration of the 'support' team? Hahaha. Imho, the real solution to this problem is a re-education of the support team on how to deal with this, and how to not get frustrated about it. -- Carlo Wood <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
