Psyke Phaeton

It makes sense to me that his foundation is the CDS data and published script(s). Any numbers may include the previous CDS scans as represented in the database.

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Inara Pey

I've been hunting back through the various fora I occasionally poke my nose into, but cannot for the life of me find what I'm looking for...

I have a very clear memory, during the height of the Gemini / Oynx farrago, of *someone* spouting off about RedZone being the "solution" at the time and making the claims that it was "safe" and "effective" and *didn't* collect data, while blatantly pointing the finger at Gemini / Oynx and generating further fear and loathing.

I remember this simply because I was commenting on Gemini CDS and Skills' other little freebie Viewer crasher on my blog, and followed the link to SLx webpage in question and smelling something decidedly pongy. That certainly was the first time I'd heard the word "RedZone".

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Qie Niangao

Some of those "statistics" are links with hover hints, as in the attached image. It says the 9+ million "People Scanned" "includes non-unique logs from different locations" so... probably they're unique agents at each location, but many appearing in lots and lots of locations over time.

There's no hint for the 4 million "Linked IPs" but really, it's nearly half the total scan number, so what can it possibly mean?

I think there's pretty much zero chance that he's got 4 million unique IP addresses. Even allowing for aggressive DHCP lease expiration in much of Europe (which would produce multiple IP addresses for those accounts over time), I suspect that number just means that a little fewer than half of all accounts ever scanned anywhere have media turned on in order for the system to snag an IP address.

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Boy Lane

Yeah that still fit's in the same timeframe I have in mind...forgot we have 2011 already....darn

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Elysium Hynes

Funny is his animator had was considered quite good, and then he started with this.

I met ZFire inworld tru a friend about two years ago he even had his vendor at my shop for a few months, because he didn´t have land at the time, he only sold harmless stuff then and seemed like a nice helpful person.

When i took a few months absence from SL i cleared my friends list and stopped the rent of my old place. And sudendly a year after this all RedZone strated, and i was simply disgusted with this product and his behaviour, several times i´ve wondered if it was the same person.

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Gabriell Anatra

I recall hearing about this from the dustup over CDS last year.

Brenda Connolly

Bah..that's more interest than I have in the matter. Besides, I don't use the marketplace.

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Brenda Connolly

It's the same way with serial killers. They seem perfectly normal, then "SNAP"!

Next thing you know, the neighbors are telling TV reporters.."I had no idea. He was such a polite, quiet guy. he used to help me carry in my groceries and everything."

Brenda Connolly

I miss those days.

Psyke Phaeton

Psychopathy was, until 1980, the term used for a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct but masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal.
Psychopathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not claiming he is, just saying acting normal does not mean is normal

Walker

Don't quote me on this, but I'm sure the reason media URLs were *originally* obfuscated was because people were 'borrowing' them for their own parcels, or even listening to them outside SL, and this was a problem for landowners paying for bandwidth or per listener on their own streams. Even though it's trivial to get the URL even without a debug option, I'm sure that was the reason.

But I could be wrong.

Joshua Nightshade

That was the reason.

Walker

You may quote me on that then.

Boy Lane

I missed the point where obfuscating media URLs was discussed with Emerald, nor could I find anything related to this mentioned in TPVP. Therefore I assume it is perfectly in line with TPV to show full URLs of anything "3rd party" that wants to access anyones PC in the interest of privacy protection and user security. Preventing such information on the other hand would be violating TPV.

Ann Otoole

There is a revenue opportunity for LL. Lease parcel secured radio streams. Streams that can't be listened too unless you are on that parcel. People that are that freaked out about it would pay the premium. The rest can use the rather affordable streams that anyone can access.

Psyke Phaeton

While I understand the motive it is out of touch with reality. Can I have my website URL obscured because it is only for my friends? Alternatively can't they limit connections, cant they change the URL or port each day? If you want to hide from bookmarkers do it based in reality not fantasy.

Darik

I'm not big on any kind of /b/tardery thinly veiled as "protest" or "proving it doesn't work", nor is anyone else here, to my knowledge. I think I can speak for all of us when we say we don't support that kind of activity. It only fuels the argument on their side that multiple accounts + free accounts = griefer/copybot with extreme prejudice. In 99.08% of cases, that's not true, but you're not going to convince the diehards of the RZ camp who want only adult verified payment verified credit card linked users likely to buy their stuff and kick out the window shoppers along with the griefers and the copybots.
If that's really the case, then you don't need RZ at all. All you need to do is create a fee-to-join store group and then set your parcel to group access only like a membership store. Even that won't stop copybotters, but it will stop the 99.08% of "undesirables" who are free to window shop from the next parcel over, giving them the option to pay a fee and join if they want to shop in your store. LL has had that implemented as long as I've been a resident, at least.

That's all most RZ opponents want, is the option to be scanned, with the knowledge that opting in will have their information sent to a third party server whose motive for collecting your data isn't trustworthy. Even at airports in the U.S., you have the option to be scanned versus frisked if they pick you out of the line (which is a whole other hot topic around here but if TSA can apply opt-in, why can't RZ?). It's not a God-given right. But until the RZ camp realizes that they can have their cake and eat it too if we give them the okay to do so there will be contention.

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Ceka Cianci

I was almost sure that by now someone would have dedicated a pants off and waving emoticon in your name..
We'll have to get some jira's going..It's long overdue..I miss those days too
The blogrums closing is nothing like RA closing..I don't think anyone was all that bummed this time around..I think it's the feeling of..No place to go but up from here heheheh

I still have my doubts..It can always be worse..
I'll always miss RA for sure..

Ann Otoole

you haven't seen the sloffworld replacement forum have you?

Brenda Connolly

It will probably happen when I am dead.

I tried to give the Blogorama a chance, but I just didn't feel the love. LL botched the implementation so horribly *what else is new?*, and they really created the climate that caused the initial hostility between the SLX and RA groups in th beginning. Their horrible moderating and reliance on backroom tattletales, rampant misuse of the AR system and total lack of participation made me stop going there about 6 months ago. I've not gone back, and won't have any interest in whatever they replace it with.

*I did say that about the Blogorama, true, but I mean it this time. Really. I swear.

Ceka Cianci

I'm guessing i am right in not getting my hopes up for something better?

Walker

OMG STOP OPPRESSING ME.

Brenda Connolly

You are EXACTLY who I am talking about....witty, charming, polite...and underneath it all a psychopathic maniac who would make Hitler run away screaming in terror.

"It's not a foum. Everyone dies!!!!"

Ciaran Laval

How difficult would it be technically for them to do this and how restrictive would it be? Would you be able to upload streams to the service for example?

Joshua Nightshade

That's a Scorpio for you.