Second Life Interview Crashed by Animated Attack
The good folks over at CNET’s News.com have an interview with Ailin Graef, aka Anshe Chung in Second Life. Apparently Ailin Graef has created quite the virtual Donald Trump real estate simulator in Second Life. According to her, she owns more than 1 million (real USD) dollars in virtual land assets.
The interview was supposed to take place at the CNET theater, which I’m assuming is CNETs space in the virtual world, but the interview was interrupted when according to CNET:
[...] as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a “griefer,” someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with–well, there’s no way to say this delicately–animated flying penises.
CNET goes on to say it’s not clear why the griefer attacked but I think it’s pretty obvious. They were a griefer. It sounds like that person was having fun at other people’s expense with no consequences. In a virtual space like Second Life people like this thrive. It’s the same in most open virtual worlds.
The interview was moved to one of Ailin’s spaces only to be crashed again. This time the griefer attacked with the animation as well as crashed the entire server.
[...] You may remember recent trouble with the openness of Second Life when an interview was crashed by an enterprising hacker who wrote a program to attack with animated penises. [...]
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