M's Blog - why does 143 = 150?

At time of writing, comments had been closed, with the post count at 143.
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/24/my-first-two-months-at-linden-lab/#comments
They were about 140 when I started the below.



@116 AC Pfeffer Says:
“Interestingly ‘packet injection’ suggests it ‘injects’ a stream of data into the asset server which should not be there. One wonders how much good that does the data integrity too.”


I think that is one of the largest problems the SL faces.
The Damascus moment for me in this was https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1034
This was a classic example of the server software trusting the message sent by the client.

I can understand (-ish) that when the system was first designed by techies as a theoretically closed system, a trusted client was a basic assumption.
Once libsl happened and open source happened, then packet-sniffing became so yesterday.

In order to build into the future, the server software requires a robustness which is totally informed by the certainty that some extremely gifted people will set out to subvert it.

If I were to look for signs of a corporate awareness, a culture, I would look at LL’s response to scamming and panhandling in SL. I would look for an active culture of stamping on exploitation.
It’s not encouraging.
- Land-grabbing by landbots taking advantage of innocent users
- Subversion of Traffic by bots and camping
- Blatant theft of IP

I’d get depressed if it were not for my total love of all the good stuff, all the creativity that I see in SL.

There is an underlying activity going on in SL that is separate from the easy targets of Organised Education and Corporation. I think it’s important. It’s people.

There may be a small danger here that people might end up as monetised Soylent Green.



Oops!
There was a question in the thread title for residents to answer - even!
Perhaps the last few posts on the blog triggered an exchange/transmission of views?

Looks like 7 posts were pulled, each of them prior to mine (formerly #147, now #140).