[Opensim-users] Permissions and common sense

[Diva Canto]

And today's award goes to three friends @ mecatreco.game-host.org:9002 
who shall remain unnamed in public, but whose names I will gladly 
disclose to interested parties. Just thought I'd publicize the domain 
where they came from to see if public shunning has any effect on 
people's behavior.

Nothing too serious, really, since there are backups of the regions.

I had been curious to find out the extent of people's common sense in a 
completely open Metaverse, `a-la Web 2.0. Now we know: there is no 
*common* sense; some people think it makes a lot of sense to go to other 
people's regions and trash them just because they can. I guess they 
didn't realize their actions were being logged.

Everyone, please turn your permissions module on, if you hadn't done it 
already, disable building permissions, etc. Not that we didn't know, 
but... always surprising.

Security is definitely way up high on my list of things to focus on.

Diva Canto wrote:
> Yes, indeed. Stupidity never fails to show up, that's rule #1 in open 
> systems. I'm gonna go through the logs and try to find out who did 
> this griefing.
>
> FYI, the UCI gateways are closed until further notice.
>
>
> Diva Canto wrote:
>> Michael Huntington wrote:
>>> Thanks Diva,
>>>
>>> This is a little off topic but just wanted to let you know I visited:
>>>
>>> secondlife://ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu:9003/
>>>
>>> and it seems someone has trashed the place.. and put nude photos as 
>>> textures on some prims.... Also while there I noticed I was able to 
>>> control the Estate settings ... and just to make sure this wasn't a 
>>> mistake.. I hypergrided over to my OSGrid sim (which belongs to 
>>> another user of mine) ... I was also able to control the Estate and 
>>> move objects around that didn't belong to me.
>>>
>>> Is this a HyperGrid bug?
>>
>> No. The Gateways are totally unprotected until the first episode of 
>> griefing trashing. This may be it... :-/
>>
>> As for other regions, whatever the visitor can and can't do is 
>> exactly the same as all other visitors.
>>
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