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I just came across an entry over on Clickable Culture<\/a> that I fully expected to be reading… if not quite so soon. Read the news here<\/a>. And I’ll just paste in the comment I made over there: <\/p>\n having come across the backdoor on the forums, i assumed LL was allowing residents to take a peek… or something (since the thread was rather long and still open). so i took a peek. and i mostly did so because while my curiousity level wasn’t too high initially, it has been recently piqued by search engine queries sending people looking for “Second+Life+Wells+Fargo+ Stagecoach+crack+password” to my blog.<\/p>\n so much for protected (cyber)spaces. ha.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh well, at least I got a few snapshots before the door got bolted closed. I suppose serious code jockeys looking for work might want to keep an eye on the Linden Lab employment page; especially those will backgrounds in security.<\/p>\n {Edit: it appears it’s not quite as bad as Clickable Culture lets on. From the referenced entry: <\/p>\n An obfuscated back door to Stagecoach Island was recently opened by a handful of Second Life residents who quickly found a number of bugs, exploits, and similar glitches–the most serious of which, perhaps, is the ability to transfer items between the Main Grid and Stagecoach Island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Having read comments from those involved in the project, this appears to have been a kind of beta test – which explains the endorsement of the Lindens when this “back door” was brought to the community’s attention.<\/p>\n However, the beta has revealed some potential issues as reported by CC. But then that’s what a beta is for. That doesn’t mean my expectation for a cracked client won’t go unrealized. I hope it doesn’t happen, but the ease with which the client was recently hacked<\/a> doesn’t fill me with confidence.}<\/p>\n {Image Copyright \u00a9 2005 C. Sven Johnson}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just came across an entry over on Clickable Culture that I fully expected to be reading… if not quite so soon. Read the news here. And I’ll just paste in the comment I made over there: having come across … Continue reading