Linden Lab to alter third-party Second Life viewer policies

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Number one, we're talking about Second Life here, and a highly criminalized opensource movement already marked by the wildest forms of griefing and content theft.

Number two, we're talking about *encryption of chat by third-party viewers* NOT of encryption in general by the platform provider, such as for passwords. Don't be ridiculous and move off topic to generalities that aren't invoked in this discussion on the forums whatosever.

There's no grounds whatsoever to accredit good will and lack of criminal intent to those with viewers that in fact are already rampantly involved in crime.

There's nothing hyperbolic about my statements here; they're based on documented field experience. Rather, the claims of this article are what are utopian, and your own non-credible defense of opensource intentions.

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Prok-
Think, if someone wants to do something nefarious they do not need to talk about it. If you are using a copying tool you already know how to use, why do you need to communicate in SL about it?

I will play along for a moment and say they do though. "Oh, SL will not let us communicate privately? I guess we will use some outside tool that does then."

Meanwhile, customers are akin to noobs in some ways, they need to be treated with kid gloves. You want to make it easier for them, not harder. If they can hold a confidential conversation in the tool they are using at that moment they are more likely to stick around. If you tell them to do something else they might say "nah, I will go with another vendor".

I hope you are not on a jihad to ban all of emerald. If you are, a lot more people that did not already know you will be against you. Emerald is probably the most popular browser after the SL clients right now.

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