Over the past several months it has come to my attention that some users have a well known user enabled feature to enable different land settings on parcels they do not own.
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SEC-117
This unknown yet 'known' feature for certain users to beable to accomplish this have been repeatidly ignored from support tickets and JIRA requests. I hearby bring this attention to the user base iin hopes for future security of Second Life.
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Einsman Schlegel
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07-06-2008 20:09
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Travis Lambert
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07-06-2008 20:11
Thanks for the alert, Einsman!
 I tried visiting the Jira link you posted - it returns the following: It seems that you have tried to perform an operation which you are not permitted to perform. If you think this message is wrong, please consult your administrators about getting the necessary permissions. Maybe Linden pulled it already? _____________________
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Viktoria Dovgal
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07-06-2008 20:19
That is normal for SEC jiras, only the reporter and Lindens can see them.
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Einsman Schlegel
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07-06-2008 20:35
Thanks for the alert, Einsman! I tried visiting the Jira link you posted - it returns the following: Maybe Linden pulled it already? as I have mentioned the lindens have repeatedly ignored this situation. It has been proven time and time again that users are able to change the land settings. These are land settings that users do not even own causing wide spread damage. Update: See Link - http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8077 |
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katykiwi Moonflower
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07-06-2008 21:13
as I have mentioned the lindens have repeatedly ignored this situation. It has been proven time and time again that users are able to change the land settings. These are land settings that users do not even own causing wide spread damage. This exploit/bug was rated as critical, but clearly fixing it is not as important as tossing us "dazzling" graphics and enhancement of the new user experience despite all the stolen content appearing all over the grid with changed permissions. |
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Tod69 Talamasca
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07-06-2008 21:33
They have also ignored the permissions change exploit/bug since it was reported on JIRA one year ago. This exploit/bug was rated as critical, but clearly fixing it is not as important as tossing us "dazzling" graphics and enhancement of the new user experience despite all the stolen content appearing all over the grid with changed permissions. I dont think its that easy. I'm no programmer but I'm able to do this thing called 'research' into this stuff, and from what I understand, to fix one thing might break another. Ask any gamer how many times they've installed a "necessary patch" to find it fixes one problem but causes another.  _____________________
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Rhaorth Antonelli
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07-06-2008 21:37
I use the analogy of a jenga tower of blocks, remove one or two blocks to fix them and the tower may still stand, but if you move another block or a specific block, the whole tower can come tumbling down
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Tod69 Talamasca
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07-06-2008 21:47
or think of the code as a bowl of spaghetti... good lord.. that would be a mess LOL Thats closer to it, I think. _____________________
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Rebecca Proudhon
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07-07-2008 02:12
SL was built wrong. The sweater they were knitting has too many dropped stitches and the whole thing will unravel if anyone touches it.
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Dekka Raymaker
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07-07-2008 05:48
as I have mentioned the lindens have repeatedly ignored this situation. It has been proven time and time again that users are able to change the land settings. These are land settings that users do not even own causing wide spread damage. Update: See Link - http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8077 the solution to this problem is simple in the eyes of the Lindens, I too reported it and was told that while you can in theory change these settings, it is only seen on your viewer, it actually doesn't change anything at all. You can try this, by changing the settings, TP out, TP back re look at the settings and they have reverted back to how they were, well they haven't even reverted, they never change other than on your screen. _____________________
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Viktoria Dovgal
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07-07-2008 07:37
they never change other than on your screen. Oh, so this is just the cached settings thing? That one can be confusing but it seems pretty harmless. _____________________
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