Archive for October, 2006

MMORPG economies in the news

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6065534.stm

Are lawmakers really trying to tax in-world transactions? Or do they simply want to level-up their orcs? We may never know.

In the News: Fabled Firefox Flaw is a Halfhearted Hacker Hoax

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

According to various sources across the web, the vulnerability in Firefox announced by a pair of presenters at the ToorCon hacker convention is not very threatening. The presenters claimed to have code that would exploit the security flaw and install rootkits on the host machine. As it turns out, they were simply bragging.

Washington Post’s Security Blog

ZD Net article