Tateru,

No. The announcement was made for the work to begin today, and the "intelligence" card about the attack distributed by security groups was also made and said the attacks were scheduled for 2:00 pm, an hour separated in time.

It seems to me you have to display more curiosity about these coincidences. First of all, even if these two events are entirely unrelated, because the Lindens announcement *was* public the griefers could have seized that time as a time when Lindens would be busy and the grid more vulnerable.

And you could also ask: why would the Lindens have to readdress IPs addresses? Perhaps this is a long-time unrelated project, but it could also be related to removing vulnerabilities through which griefers reached the grid. Given that we a) never got an explanation for why this sudden IP readdress (as you yourself reported) and b) never got an explanation of why these "unforeseen problems" it is right and reasonable to ask: well, is this related to griefing, Lindens? Hello?

I don't know where you could possibly gotten the idea that only a small percentage of users knew of this attack, or were *affected by it*. Through what keyhole are you looking? All you have to do is listen to the chat in the Concierge group -- hundreds of sim owners affected. Look at the list of communities even in the security notice -- they were all affected, and that's thousands of people. Fly around the mainland and see the particles flying -- everywhere. Everybody talking about it. What is it that you look at, that you cannot see this, Tateru?

Sure, there might be some "theoretical small percentage" if you think of some fake number like "out of 1.5 million who log on regularly" or "out of 10 million sign-ups". But we're talking about really 50,000 or even only 35,000 logged on at any one time. To have thousands of people out of *that* figure is a significant number then.

Landowners and their tenants, whether homes or businesses or non-profits or educational institutions, pay the tier that enables this company to have revenue to develop this software. They matter. When they are griefed, it matters, even if it doesn't matter to coders who live in a sandbox somewhere.

The fact is, until the Lindens will be honest about reporting the type, duration, and size of grid attacks, we cannot know, and you can speculate it into nothingness if you like but I prefer to keep asking questions about it as my customers and I are affected as are many, many others. It certainly isn't appropriate to minimize this griefing and pretend that it is somehow a "last gasp" when it's nothing of the kind -- there are more of the griefers, and more attacks, than ever before.