That would stop a determined cloner from making copies of course. This is a discussion on the entire family of OpenSim grids and SL as well. It is not a hypergrid only discussion. The impossibility of ridding even SL of something like copybot is a known issue. However, there are things that can be done to insure your inventory does not get messed up.

It is all still rather new and many possibilities exist. That’s one thing Kyle has that Linden Lab no longer has. That drive to push boundaries and break paradigms. Along the way, expectations may fail but incredible and unseen possibilities will unfold.

Being on the cutting edge is exactly that – a sharp and sometimes dangerous place. But if my greatest danger is in someone taking a chair or Ener’s parasol (woe be the one to do that!), then it’s not very dangerous at all.

Kyle and his team are incredibly talented and driven. And they truly care and do the best by their people. For experimentation, consult them and they will help guide you. They see the current limitations but are also open to that fact that they don’t know it all.

You might just stumble across something pretty cool if you are willing to step forward.

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As a evolving platform it is frustrating for some looking for stability & security over anything to deal with new features that are untested. It is also frustrating to those trying to rapidly develop features during this early stage of development who are tied to legacy code they feel needs updating/refactoring.

I think Hypergrid, like Opensim, should be chosen on a use case basis after much thought about features vs security. In all systems ease of access is weighed against security and many times this boils down to the goals of the project.

Hypergrid, in terms of connecting schools together, is magic for Opensim. When 2 schools who have been properly trained on backups and maintenance of Opensim worlds decide to connect for an event via Hypergrid this is world changing by definition.

What we see happening on ReactionGrid is this very thing and in this case you have 2 very trusted world operators who have both done backups of their databases and other core files before any major change or event.

With proper backups experimentation can begin in terms of connecting worlds, scripting, updates and more. Seeing virtual worlds beginning to connect on a global scale is amazing to us. The ramifications of this could mean a more peaceful, educated, greener world for all, if you see the vision long term and have glimpsed students and teaching making this happen as we have.

However in the case of ScienceSim this is not the intended use case (linking many worlds) and as such needs to be evaluated on their own merits as far as Hypergridding and other pluggable choices.

In this case Hypergridding shows no appreciable benefit vs the security issues so of course the smart decision is to disable the service. A testament really to the inherent, by design, pluggability of Opensim.

What should not be drawn as a conclusion from this article is that Hypergrid is “not safe”. It, like Opensim and Second Life etc are to be chosen based on a critical thought process you engage with your client/user on in advance of deployment. The right tool for the job is the ethos here.

Choose your world platform and feature set wisely and your end users with get “the best of both worlds” cheesy pun fully intended, without extra liability from unneeded features.

See you in 3D!

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