the drawback, is that It's one more extra trip for your data, increasing ping times, possibility of data loss, etc... and can translate into extra lag, more dicsonnects, and slower connections to media...
So not really much of a difference....
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Tarina Sewell
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11-09-2008 11:03
the drawback, is that It's one more extra trip for your data, increasing ping times, possibility of data loss, etc... and can translate into extra lag, more dicsonnects, and slower connections to media... So not really much of a difference.... |
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LittleMe Jewell
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Join date: 8 Oct 2007
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11-09-2008 11:17
... people need to be as secure if not more with their RL information than anything.. i know some people on SL just handing it out like it was Halloween candy... ..if they keep going i'll say something like..what are you gonna do stop by and say hello?  _____________________
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Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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11-26-2008 09:10
I have spoken to a number of people, generally with female avatars, who routinely use alts to avoid unwanted attentions from over-attentive players, generally with male avatars. Whether the players are male or female is irrelevant... the unwanted attentions are real either way and apparently the mechanisms LL provides to provide privacy are not adequate to prevent them short of using an alt. Given LL's commitment to privacy in other aspects of SL I am not surprised.
If ones IP address can be determined, it can be used to identify these alts. It is therefore desirable to avoid letting the relationship between ones IP address and ones SL identity becoming known to entities that do not otherwise have a genuine and legitimate need for it (such as, for example, Linden Labs  ). This is one reason I recommend avoiding things like leaving streaming media (audio and video) enabled in SL, or following URLs provided in-world without inspecting them to make sure that they're to organizations (such as, for example, Youtube) unlikely to be collaborating with potential stalkers or collectors of unconsidered trifles for retail redistribution. It's also a reason that I am concerned about the broad interest in features like HTTP-based HTML on a prim._____________________
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
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11-26-2008 09:26
I met a guy out dancing - his profile had a picture of himself in the RL tab, all sorts of extreme details in that tab, and the web/media tab had a web site that was for his RL computer busines and gave all sort of personal details -- exact name, address, birth date, phone number, etc. Geez, not only an open door for someone to harrass/stalk you, but an invitation to identity theft as well. _____________________
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Feldspar Millgrove
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Join date: 16 Nov 2006
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11-28-2008 12:08
The person would still have to know how to exploit [...] Always important to note that a person does not need to KNOW anything except how to push the On/Off button of an exploit tool that they have obtained. Technical knowledge is needed to invent new attacks, but not to use an exploit that someone else has figured out already. Any idiot can attack you on the Internet (or the web or SL ...) - they just have to buy the software for doing it. |