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RedZone Privacy Issues Develop – Review

2011/03/022011/02/25 by Nalates Urriah

RedZone Spyware — Spyware in SL - Image by: Anonymous9000

Update: 2011-3-2 – RedZone removed from market place. Quickware detector disappears. CDS remains but the product description is gone.

Update: See JIRA SVC-6793 vote and watch.

More people are becoming aware of what RedZone (RZ) is and what it means for their privacy. From June 2010 to February 2011 people have changed from ‘wus zat?’ to ‘WTF is being done about RedZone?’ Alphaville Herald has been reporting the state of RedZone and resident reaction along with the Labs actions. I am getting more curious about RedZone (L$3,999 in Market Place) and decided I needed to review the product and state of drama around it.

SL Inventory Problems – Alert

2010/08/24 by Nalates Urriah

Alert! In Second Life we have recently had a round of problems with our inventories not loading correctly. You’ll see a number of articles here about solving those problems and restoring lost items. Much of the blame for lost items has been laid at the feet of various Third Party Viewers (TPV). But, tomorrow Linden … Read more

Second Life Popular Viewer? Review?

2010/06/27 by Nalates Urriah

I’m into viewers and new viewer features. I’m interested in photography, a little machinima, building, and the ability to important and export things I build between OSGrid and Second Life. Most of you know I’m impressed with the Kirsten and the Emerald viewer people. I also like Hippo and Imprudence viewers. All while being underwhelmed by Linden Lab’s SL 2.0 Viewer.

When I started getting comments about the Emerald viewer being crap and I should get a real viewer called ‘Second Life Popular Viewer’ I expected they were another ego-centric narcissistic web persona with little if any social skills. But, that doesn’t make the viewer bad and I was still curious about it.