Sonic-Style Grey Goo Cripples Second Life

[Ian David]

Sonic-Style Grey Goo Cripples Second Life
Topic: Virtual Reality

Gridcrash Yet another grey goo attack in Second Life this weekend, this time in the form of Sonic-style golden rings that proved irresistible to grabby avatars. Slashdot says:

Apparently, most people are willing to touch an object they've never seen before and this invoked a worm script that was designed to multiply and spread across the 2,700+ servers run by Linden Labs in California, the game's owner. Many of the six hundred thousand active users experienced serious lag and lost connectivity to the servers, making it one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks in an online game.

Hee. Furthering this delicious soap opera is this post on the Second Citizen forums, in which one of the perpetrators links to scans of his court summons.

I did a little poking around at the forums, and the guy who claims to have done the Sonic rings grey-goo attack (and calls himself God of Gridcrash) is also one of the “Satyr 60”, a crowd of banned Something Awful goons linked to various previous griefings, mostly in the form of ugly builds.

More:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/11/sonicstyle_grey.html