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Last week, black hat hackers broke into a user database for Second Life and got the names and contact info of thousands of the virtual world's users. Pretty nasty, but the ensuing publicity earned a wave of signups. SL creator Linden Labs chose not to gloat (not exactly a tough call), but one Second Life user couldn't help it. She wrote in New World Notes, the unofficial news outlet for SL:
Your name, address, phone number and so forth - in the hands of the black hats.
That's a cause for concern, isn't it? If you were considering signing up with an online service, and their customer database got cracked like that, wouldn't it make you think twice?
Then how do we explain these signup figures?
"There's no such thing as bad publicity," she writes. There is. And it's this essay.
Hacking up a storm [New World Notes]
