![]() ![]() XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "mac", mac, 0) XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "platform", PLATFORM_STRING, 0) XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "channel", gSavedSettings.getString("VersionChannelName").c_str(), 0) XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "version", gCurrentVersion.c_str(), 0) // Includes channel name XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "start", start.c_str(), 0) ![]() XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "web_login_key", web_login_key.getString().c_str(), 0) XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "last", lastname.c_str(), 0) XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "first", firstname.c_str(), 0) XMLRPC_VALUE params = XMLRPC_CreateVector(NULL, xmlrpc_vector_struct) XMLRPC_RequestSetRequestType(request, xmlrpc_request_call) XMLRPC_RequestSetMethodName(request, method.c_str()) XMLRPC_REQUEST request = XMLRPC_RequestNew() LLMD5 md5HDD((const unsigned char *)strHDD.c_str()) LLMD5 md5Mac((const unsigned char *)strMac.c_str()) StrHDD.append(hashed_volume_serial.c_str()) Linux users looking at this file themselves will see they have an interesting variation. Notice how the mac address and host id get wrapped up in the XML authentication packet which is sent to the second life service at login. In such cases, a polite appeal to Linden Labs, offering proof you are not the same person as the banned one has historically proven successful for people so affected (I personally know of two such cases).įor the curious geeks or anyone inclined to disbelieve me, below is a snippet of the second life client code, taken from the lluserauth.cpp file. If someone is banned from SL, and they used your computer, you may be banned too. This works much better than IP address matching because people have literally shared computers if they match in the database. Both pieces of information are passed back to Linden Labs, who record this and thus know who logged into Second Life on your computer. Specifically, the code in the Second Life clients that authenticates users to the service passes hashed copies (hashing is a type of encoding) of the mac address (media access control, or link layer addresses are used to talk to other equipment on a single network link and differ from IP addresses in that they are usually tied to a specific piece of hardware) and also the identifier on your hard disk. In this way, unlike RedZone, they avoid catastrophes where they would ban entire countries that use shared proxy servers (like RedZone did to the United Arab Emirates). Not the IP address which gets shared between multiple people who often have little to do with each other. They identify people based on the hardware they use to connect. Linden Labs are much more clever about what they do. Linden Labs know that IP address matching is a terrible way to try to identify alts, and all the evidence I have seen is that they simply do not use it. We must sadly leave aside his odd belief in sentient computers (no, zFire, computers do not think anything. ![]() Once again zFire tells people that Linden Labs detects alts the same way that he does – through IP address matching. But we won’t disabuse zFire of this idea, so let’s move onto the fib. The idea goes against sound reason, psychology of human behaviour, natural justice and, often, common sense. But many people assume that people who know one another must share their morality and ideals. Nevertheless this argument often feels instinctively right to shallow thinkers. In law, of course, we would not countenance even a prosecution of Mary unless we actually had some evidence that Mary is a thief. What zFire here is proposing is the well known ad hominem fallacy known as “guilt by association”. Now let us get one thing clear at the outset. (If they are banned, blocked or need to pick a fight) At the very least one will jump onto the others account as needed. If they know and trust eachother that much and one of them is a CB, it is highly probable that they both are. If Person A is not the same human as Person X, but one of them later turns out to be a copybot, a computer would think they are the same.įor security reasons this is good. LL and zRZ Link alts the same way, for the same reason. If you or any of your alts are LL banned from SL, your other accounts are subject to the same. ZFire writes some more fibs in his forum today: ![]()
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