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Gosh, Tateru, the very first thing that comes to my mind isn't "new network provider" but "old griefers who announced -- and executed -- a grid-wide attack at 2:00 pm SLT".

Why can't the Lindens admit when the entire grid is under attack by griefers?

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Tateru,

No. The announcement was made for the work to begin today, and the "intelligence" card about the attack distributed by security groups was also made and said the attacks were scheduled for 2:00 pm, an hour separated in time.

It seems to me you have to display more curiosity about these coincidences. First of all, even if these two events are entirely unrelated, because the Lindens announcement *was* public the griefers could have seized that time as a time when Lindens would be busy and the grid more vulnerable.

And you could also ask: why would the Lindens have to readdress IPs addresses? Perhaps this is a long-time unrelated project, but it could also be related to removing vulnerabilities through which griefers reached the grid. Given that we a) never got an explanation for why this sudden IP readdress (as you yourself reported) and b) never got an explanation of why these "unforeseen problems" it is right and reasonable to ask: well, is this related to griefing, Lindens? Hello?

I don't know where you could possibly gotten the idea that only a small percentage of users knew of this attack, or were *affected by it*. Through what keyhole are you looking? All you have to do is listen to the chat in the Concierge group -- hundreds of sim owners affected. Look at the list of communities even in the security notice -- they were all affected, and that's thousands of people. Fly around the mainland and see the particles flying -- everywhere. Everybody talking about it. What is it that you look at, that you cannot see this, Tateru?

Sure, there might be some "theoretical small percentage" if you think of some fake number like "out of 1.5 million who log on regularly" or "out of 10 million sign-ups". But we're talking about really 50,000 or even only 35,000 logged on at any one time. To have thousands of people out of *that* figure is a significant number then.

Landowners and their tenants, whether homes or businesses or non-profits or educational institutions, pay the tier that enables this company to have revenue to develop this software. They matter. When they are griefed, it matters, even if it doesn't matter to coders who live in a sandbox somewhere.

The fact is, until the Lindens will be honest about reporting the type, duration, and size of grid attacks, we cannot know, and you can speculate it into nothingness if you like but I prefer to keep asking questions about it as my customers and I are affected as are many, many others. It certainly isn't appropriate to minimize this griefing and pretend that it is somehow a "last gasp" when it's nothing of the kind -- there are more of the griefers, and more attacks, than ever before.

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What makes you think that a project like as this is something they can "suddenly" do whenever they want? Moreso, that they would spend the extra man hours necessary just to cover a silly grid attack? I think your tinfoil is really showing.

I suspect the reason they don't tell us "the type, duration, and size of grid attacks" is because most residents won't care as long as their little corner of the grid is okay anyway. The only people who will read it are you and the griefers who will use it as a scoreboard.

Why give them the satisfaction, not to mention the feedback on what works and what doesn't, just to satisfy your curiosity? Personally I think no amount of transparency is enough when people are determined to see conspiracies even where there is none.

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