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May 23, 2003, 8:24pm

Can you please do something to stop people from making propdumps from the
cache files?

This is a major security problem.
People could go in your world, wait for it to fully load in and then create
a full propdump of it without your permission or knowledge they are doing
it.

I don't like doing all my hard work just to have someone copy it and dump it
into there world under there name using similar objects then calling it
there work.

I understand that some may want this ability in case something happened to
the world server and the only backup is in there cache. But most of us use a
bot to backup everything or make regular backups of the world through the
admin. tool.

May 23, 2003, 8:30pm

Oh for gawd sakes we just have to live with things like this. Appart from
Andras and Annanas coming in and biting our heads off.

Its a standard database, unless you would like everything cyphered which
Sleepy would probably break in 20 seconds and give to the An<Somethings>
peoples its kinda pointless.

Its a risk with everything, hey whats to stop someone driving a proxy'd bot
in and scanning it, or using citSDK?

- Mark

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May 23, 2003, 9:48pm

Heck people can just go into a world, boot up dat2dmp, and make a propdump
of the world, and then use it, your really not safe from anything like that,
although I do agree with you, it shouldn't be that way.

--
Brock - 308723 - DE Leader
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May 23, 2003, 10:44pm

You'll be happy when you accidentally delete your world and someone has the
propdump to re-build most of it again. =)

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May 23, 2003, 11:37pm

Most private owned worlds use custom objects and those are most likely
password protected; so even with a propdump one would end up with a lot
triangles.
I belive most people want to build their own worlds, those wanting a copied
worlds are probably not taking worldowning seriously anyway and will be gone
in a while.

Drac
dlp anne <anne at dreamlandpark.com> kirjoitti
viestissä:3ece9f8f at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Can you please do something to stop people from making propdumps from the
> cache files?
>
> This is a major security problem.
> People could go in your world, wait for it to fully load in and then
create
> a full propdump of it without your permission or knowledge they are doing
> it.
>
> I don't like doing all my hard work just to have someone copy it and dump
it
> into there world under there name using similar objects then calling it
> there work.
>
> I understand that some may want this ability in case something happened to
> the world server and the only backup is in there cache. But most of us use
a
> bot to backup everything or make regular backups of the world through the
> admin. tool.
>
>

May 25, 2003, 12:30pm

[View Quote] The only way to do this would be to encrypt them somehow, and since they're expected to be updated in realtime, the encrypting and decrypting every time you want to read the cache would be a major slowdown. You're not going to prevent someone who really wants to copy your world from doing it and adding this to the browser will just cause problems for everyone.

-Agent1

Jul 7, 2003, 6:31am

At the expense of performance, the ability to mark a world as uncacheable
would completely remove the ability to obtain a propdump.

No cache... no propdump.

In advance to all the people who will object about how it's impossible to
protect
content, about how performance will suck and all your other objections, we
who
care about protecting content really don't care what you who don't want
anyone
to be able to protect it think. It's Annes choice to try to do something
about
leeches, and I have to wonder why some people are so quick to try to snuff
out any discussion on the topic.

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