Pelishard New Problems... Future Code Problems
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:51 pm
Well... here is a whole new level of a problem that just popped up at GoMa. The issue of Trojan software and malicious code has come up before. Here it is again before we even have a ...what adjective shall I use to not prejudice the sentence... 'real' ...?... (hopefully you get my idea) shard up.
Drizzle Pelishard Fork
ddb174 is putting out warnings. The original was in April on GoW. A recent post regarding it appeared at GoMa. Why now I don't know unless it is because of the recent GoMa management changes.
Dhelayan (Pelishard operator) responded.
No objective person has looked at the code as far as I can tell. Since credit for work done by others is apparently removed... I have problems with what Dhelayan is doing.
But this points out the problems users are going to have. SL has numerous hacks where people try to scam people into running modified viewers that can steal passwords, of course real money is involved in SL.
Modular Systems makes a viewer for SL. They are using public keys to assure people get their code without change no matter where it downloads from. They also post the code publicly so people can easily compile it and check the CRC/MD5 type results against the executables. That makes it easy for an objective party to make a check.
It looks like the MOOS effort will certainly have to have something.
I may have this in the wrong section... I have no prob with it being moved.
Mod note: I felt this was better in the System Concepts forum as it's a bit of an "infrastructure" subject.
Drizzle Pelishard Fork
ddb174 is putting out warnings. The original was in April on GoW. A recent post regarding it appeared at GoMa. Why now I don't know unless it is because of the recent GoMa management changes.
Dhelayan (Pelishard operator) responded.
No objective person has looked at the code as far as I can tell. Since credit for work done by others is apparently removed... I have problems with what Dhelayan is doing.
But this points out the problems users are going to have. SL has numerous hacks where people try to scam people into running modified viewers that can steal passwords, of course real money is involved in SL.
Modular Systems makes a viewer for SL. They are using public keys to assure people get their code without change no matter where it downloads from. They also post the code publicly so people can easily compile it and check the CRC/MD5 type results against the executables. That makes it easy for an objective party to make a check.
It looks like the MOOS effort will certainly have to have something.
I may have this in the wrong section... I have no prob with it being moved.
Mod note: I felt this was better in the System Concepts forum as it's a bit of an "infrastructure" subject.