Amazon.com suggests hacking Second Life
Greg Hoglund’s new book, Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems, is being released this Friday. It talks about how to cheat at massively multiplayer online games, such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. While browsing Amazon today, it gave me the following suggestion:
It appears Amazon is suggesting that we should read Greg’s book and then go hack Second Life. 
July 16th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
The book is now available with free shipping withing 24 hours from Barnes and Noble here. Try the coupon code D3J3M7K for 15% off the price — although the code might only work for B&N paid members.
Amazon still lists the book as being not yet available.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:24 am
I’ve been warning people that someone will figure out how to abuse Second Life and other “virtual worlds.” Imagine a Matrix-like situation where “Avatar Spam” invades an area and takes over, crowding out others or avatar “bots” programmed to run without a human controlling it and constantly approaching Second Life residents with their marketing messages.
It’s possible…..
July 26th, 2007 at 11:32 am
You’re definitely right Joseph. In fact in Warcraft it has already happened. A gold-selling site recently spammed a main city. They automatically created lots of characters and killed them in a pattern spelling out their domain name in corpses. The video of it here shows that the method was automated and used position hacking: