Sky News (the UK arm of the News Corps TV news network) has run a story on the use of Second Life by virtual pedophiles. Seen here on You Tube. These stories aren’t new but the Sky News report was well done and actually showed the sites used by those engaged in what is known [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Virtual Pedophilia In Second Life
Posted in Crime, News, tagged pedophilia, second life, sky news on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Virtual World Law – update
Posted in Legal on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The following virtual world legal update was posted by Terra Nova. It details the main points of the Bragg V Linden case.
Editorial in Financial Times – controls in social networks
Posted in News on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The editorial in today’s FT highlights the need to workable controls around social networks and virtual communities. As the piece states if the heavy hand of US law is applied to this problem the likely result will be the off-shoring of social networks and arguably virtual worlds. A virtual world that does not make itself [...]
Some Recent links
Posted in Fraud, Legal, News, Software Vulnerability on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Online games and the law Online games and fraud Hackers freeze web sites of Game Money Trading Firms
How to prevent anti-social behavior in online social-networks
Posted in Crime, Extremism/Terrorism, Fraud, Money Laundering on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Social-networking has been the dominant theme describing almost every new Internet based software application to emerge over the past two years. MySpace, Facebook and Second Life, to name the most prominent applications, have all prospered on the promise and realization of creating a community online. But while they have moved relentlessly forward the platforms have [...]
Virtual Worlds Conference
Posted in News on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The virtual worlds conference begins today in San Jose. A quick scan of the content shows that security issues remain firmly off the agenda as these systems progress. I would have thought by now that concerns over fraud and anti-social behavior would have moved up the list a little.
Cheating Games
Posted in News, Software Vulnerability on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
AP article on cheating video games. Link here.
