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10.17.08Second Life Privacy Flaw Allows Tracking of Users, Anywhere, Any TimeYour avatar's location can be mapped. And you don't need to give permission. What We Believe is Not Always Supported By Code As virtual world technologies are developed I've long been an advocate for considering the ways in which, one day, we'll wake up and wonder why basic policies can't be executed. The theory is that code is policy-free. OpenSim, for example, is called the Apache of virtual worlds, meaning it's just a bunch of code snippets that let's you cobble together a world. But I'm convinced that this obscures the fact that code is built on models, and models are created ...
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