Stealing Second Life
From BoingBoing:
Grey Goo melting online world Second Life
A "griefer" -- person who disrupts video-games -- is attacking the online world Second Life with self-replicating "grey goo" that is melting down the Second Life servers. "Grey goo" is shorthand for an apocalyptic nano-gone-wrong scenario wherein nanoassemblers replicate so profligately that they reduce the world to slurry.
4:55pm PST: There was a slight delay to our rolling restart while we continued our investigation. The rolling restart should begin soon, if you are currently in-world you will get a warning before your region is restarted - allowing you to teleport to another region. We hope to have logins open again very soon. Thanks again for everyone¹s patience during this issue.
4:35pm PST: As part of our effort to counter the recent grey goo attacks, we¹re currently doing a rolling restart of the grid to help clean it out, this means each region will be restarted over the course of the next few hours. Thanks again for your patience.
4:15pm PST: We are still in the process of investigating the grid-wide griefing attacks, as such we have momentarily disabled scripts and ³money transfers to objects² as well on the entire grid. We apologize for this and thank for your patience. As soon as I have more information, I will pass it along.
Grey Goo melting online world Second Life
A "griefer" -- person who disrupts video-games -- is attacking the online world Second Life with self-replicating "grey goo" that is melting down the Second Life servers. "Grey goo" is shorthand for an apocalyptic nano-gone-wrong scenario wherein nanoassemblers replicate so profligately that they reduce the world to slurry.
4:55pm PST: There was a slight delay to our rolling restart while we continued our investigation. The rolling restart should begin soon, if you are currently in-world you will get a warning before your region is restarted - allowing you to teleport to another region. We hope to have logins open again very soon. Thanks again for everyone¹s patience during this issue.
4:35pm PST: As part of our effort to counter the recent grey goo attacks, we¹re currently doing a rolling restart of the grid to help clean it out, this means each region will be restarted over the course of the next few hours. Thanks again for your patience.
4:15pm PST: We are still in the process of investigating the grid-wide griefing attacks, as such we have momentarily disabled scripts and ³money transfers to objects² as well on the entire grid. We apologize for this and thank for your patience. As soon as I have more information, I will pass it along.
Wow. That sucks. There are people who make their living by playing that game. I wonder if they will be able to track who did it.
Posted by
Jared |
1:05 AM, October 11, 2006
wow, there are people that make their living on that game? what oxygen thieves!
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:30 PM, October 17, 2006