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Have you seen this chatspam attack?
Tengu Yamabushi
Registered User
Join date: 25 Sep 2005
Posts: 191
04-20-2008 07:29
<obligatory question inset>: Have you seen the following chatspam attack?

"Object shout of 'Not permitted to edit this!' is being used for harassment/grief"

pJIRA: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6651

Folks,

Some areas never see organized grief (I'm happy for you if so) - others get it multiple times per day. FYI, there's a new, systematic exploit of a long-extant LSL 'feature' that is being used to harass...

If you're running a social area, you may run into this at some point... synopsis:

From: someone
Under some circumstances (one of which is described here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_llAllowInventoryDrop) objects can be coerced into shouting:

<object name> shouts: Not permitted to edit this!

Regardless of whether this particular LSL feature is the actual one used for the exploit, the effect is that the "Not permitted to edit this!" message is now being used as the 'latest' method of chatspam/flooding areas as a means of harassment/grief.

If the issue affects you, please feel free to inspect (and perhaps vote on) the pJIRA entry above.

Just a heads up... be well, everyone :)
Madhu Maruti
aka Carter Denja
Join date: 6 Dec 2007
Posts: 749
04-20-2008 08:44
I do remember seeing this, one night at the forum hangout. A couple of avatars came in, sat down, and then this chatspam filled our screens until someone (Claire I think) muted the objects in question. (Not sure how this worked, but it seemed to stop the spam on everyone's screen, not just hers.) Then another object started, and she muted that one too. Eventually they stopped and moved on. Thanks for the JIRA link.
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