[Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly of interest to grid operators/grid nauts

[Melanie]

Hi,

On 15/11/2012 19:33, Snowcrash Short wrote:
> Closed source is just another word for security through obscurity, which we
> - hopefully - all know really doesn't provide any security. [...]

Closed source means that it's not trivially possible to modify the
tool to assume the open policy for all grids and then put the
modified tool in the wild for all and sundry to abuse.
Most existing tools are either hacking tools sold through dubious
channels, difficult to use or lack important features. There is to
this day no free, widely available, open source, easy to use content
ripping tool. Your project is bound to become that tool if it is
released as open source.

> Atleast it will be very simple for the administrator to determine if assets
> are being duplicated, especially if MyInventory is being used in a mode
> where it accesses the asset service directly.

No closed grid will ever be able to provide direct asset service
connections because these also allow to extract any and all content,
in full quality and without restrictions. This would include script
sources - an unacceptable situation.

- Melanie