If you can successfully access root codes and program files, this will be very dangerous indeed. If, by contrast, the environment restricts to particular ports and program access, this armed avatar is more a toy, like a DDS attack. Effective in their own medium, but limited with effective countermeasures.

This is very interesting in contrast to the early discussions about using computers in our military and civilian leaderships. One comment about email was that it is never as secure as closing a door behind you and turning on the radio. But we do it anyways.

Will the ‘evil avatar’, such as a mugger (who steals your credit card/purchase you just made at the kiosk), a stalker (who sees you in every environment you enter), a rapist (one who tracks you down in real life to enter your life), a murderer (one who takes your identity and uses it in far off environments), or a fraud (one who has no business but sells you items you think you are going to get in the mail); will these evolutions be free to evolve into the armed avatars, or will the ‘cyber police’ in these environments look for suspicious activity?

Also, will a 3D environment make it easier, not harder, to spot bad apples?