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Extra!!: Philip Calls the FBI. W-Hats Shit Themselves (http://www.dragonscoveherald.com/blog/index.php?p=1050)

— Urizenus @ 9:47 pm

by Dow Jonas

Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab, announced at a resident virtual winter holiday party in Second Life’s Wengen today that he is turning to real-world authorities to investigate Monday’s deliberate crashing of his virtual world’s grid.

When the party was bombed today by a griefer with pixelated C-4, Rosedale, whose avatar is Philip Linden, was bumped around the sim. The overcrowded Linden-run sims appeared to be a prime target for an attack during the season’s top event.

Bedecked in a red Santa’s cap and blue shirt, the Monetarized Socializing Platform Mogul danced around a roaring bonfire set for the occasion and said, “This seems about a good a time as any to tell you that I am turning over names to the FBI.”

Linden said that he viewed Monday’s grid crash like any denial-of-service attack on an Internet web page.

The CEO’s announcement was greeted with cheers by residents toasting marshmallows around the virtual fire.

Asked by a reporter to clarify what kind of prosecution he might seek, Linden said, “Yes, we will turn over data to the FBI. That is what we are doing. Already in progress.”

Hastening away to a real-life party with investors, Philip Linden declined to comment on queries about whether the 14-day suspension handed out to an unnamed resident for a “global attack” reported on the Police Blotter this week was related to the grid crash, or whether it was the limit of Linden Lab’s actions.

He did not name the attackers nor specify whether they were related to members of W-Hat responsible for 2 other global attacks this year.

Bedecked in a red Santa’s cap and blue shirt, the Monetarized Socializing Platform Mogul danced around a roaring bonfire set for the occasion and said, “This seems about a good a time as any to tell you that I am turning over names to the FBI.”

Shoplifting is an exploit within the system too; retailers could place all product in sealed cases and have shoppers redeem item slips for them at checkout.

EULA |= written law AFAIK

In America, thanks to the dips at BSI, EULA does equal a binding contract, per the courts.

But that's a civil matter, is it not?

I believe the reason it was referred to the FBI is this falls in the category Cyberterrorism in the Patriot Act.  Not certain of that, though.

Personally, I don't see it as any different from walking up to the back of, say, a local grocery store, and cutting the power cable.  Sure, it's relatively easy to fix, maybe a couple hours of outage...  But you better believe if caught you'll be charged.  It prevents the merchant from doing business in the same way a DoS-style attack prevents online merchants from doing business.  The main difference in online stuff, is it's easier to catch culprits unless they are very clever, and most attacks occur across state lines, making them federal jurisdiction.

The President can't handle that truth.

When the party was bombed today by a griefer with pixelated C-4,

PS:I just GIS'ed "furry" for a funny link, but I am quite sure that linking to furry-porn results in a ban , so I chickened out. But I consider a large part of my humanity gone forever  :sad_panda:

You should have known better. Any punishment we could dole out for posting furry pr0n links would be nothing compared to the horror of actually having SEEN furry pr0n.

Every time you masturbate to furry pr0n, you have to remember that the chances are good somewhere Bruce is masturbating to the same thing.

Where does he find the time for his charts!?

Oh come on. It's not THAT bad. I mean, it's no lemonparty.