Uh, no, what I have to believe is that Linden Lab is actively not telling the truth.

They are not telling the truth of the size, dimensions, duration, and damages (numbers affected, Linden hours spent) of these attacks. They are silent about them. And they are counting on people like you to help them minimize them. That's wrong.

The technical issues they are working on with this readdressing of IPs may well be entirely unrelated to griefing attacks, as I've already said two times and said from the beginning when I began questioning this. But the fact that they made a public announcement meant that griefers could seize this time to make their attack and maximize the damage. And we can't know that didn't make it harder to bring the grid up.

When a massive grid attack takes place, and a sudden maintenance move to readdress IPs take place nearly simultaneously, inquiring and open minds must ask: are these two events unrelated? If technically unrelated, did one worsen the other?

Even the Police Blotter has numerous cases of "prim litter" this evening on all kinds of sims, and we all know that the Police Blotter represents only an emblematic small percentage of all abuses reported.