Zyngo, a popular in-world game in Second Life was hacked, causing the creator of the machines to initiate emergency measures.
The Zyngo machines were victim of a string of circumstances:
“A SL exploit was found and removed, but not before quite a number of my games were cloned. This was hard on me, and hard on all existing owners who didn’t need to see another flood of Zyngos hit the market.
Exploits were made against Z$ games. Fortunately, our new system defenses held and we were able to get the money back to the rightful owners. Still, this sucked my time.
And, finally, a group of japanese hackers created a custom SL client that was able to overwhelm all the security checks I made in Zyngo. Thanks to several people (who preferred that I didn’t name them), I had some videos and explanations of the exploit and I found a defense that won’t allow the exploit anymore.”
What’s partly concerning about the exploits against a popular in world game is the use of the client to perform the hack.
Zyngo addicts everywhere are making alternate plans for the weekend.
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Zyngo needs to be shut down. I was reading elsewhere somebody’s rants and raves about how they have been employing a scripter in SL to alter the scripts in thier machines, and force people to lose more. They went on to say that thier freeplay machines are untouched to get people thinking zyngo pays out alot and thier higher cost machines are all scripted up. they even explained how to do it.
There are people in SL telling lies about “algorythms and Hot/cold zones” (yes thats right)
to rake people in by the crowd full to play his machines, even though none of these facts are true.
Even the creator of zyngo knows this is bullshit.
The following is a public statement made by zyngo creator, Aargle Zymurgy, on Friday November 7 2008 regarding zyngo scores.
One Zyngo owner is making claims that Zyngo scores are dynamic. That is, they adjust gameplay according to the score set. This claim is a lie, and is being used to fraudulantly advertise his club. Gameplay, and any figures related to generation of numbers, devils, angels, jokers, etc. are out of ALL owners controls. Setting a score won’t make any difference.
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The ultimate truth, zyngo is the biggest bunch of exploit shit that exists out there.
The only people making money with zyngo are the ones that have endless supplies of machines, and sell them to noobs for very close to full price.
zyngo is the greatest rip off in the history of sl.
you have been told.
Man, trust me, you dont know what you are talking about.
Who the hell has heard of customers ripping a business off… I’ve played plenty of znygo games and still do, and about the zyngo scripting issue so that wins are much harder, is a fact. Once again the public is ripped off, no one else.