BNT estates

Today I was asked to take some pictures for the Land Expo being held in June, the pictures were for BNTs display and I happily stepped up as many know I love taking pictures and I know there are some lovely places on the estate.
I did not expect the quality I found though and some places were breath-taking.
Like Cypreana and Coppice - I was truly amazed at the beauty that has been created.
Take a look at the images or go and see the places for yourself - pictures can never do some of these sims justice.
Dana

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Drama at BNT/ACE and Central Grid

Yesterday this announcement was made on the ACE website:

"There have been several individuals using alts over the past few months to slander and defame ACE and BNT.
We were informed by Barb Carson of Central Grid that she has left that company, as has Marcus Vendetta, out of disgust with the dishonesty, lies, manipulations, and frauds of Jasper Tizzy, aka Frank Corsi. Ms. Carson stated that she lost $10,000 US on Central Grid and it is a failure as a company. She is pursuing fraud charges against Mr. Corsi with the New York Attorney Generals office.
Most recently, Frank Corsi has been using his KingsEstate Short alt to slander and defame ACE and BNT within the BNT sims, and in the greater SL community. Ms. Carson confirmed this and we determined that he infiltrated the VSTARR IPO party last monday to IM attendees with slander about ACE and BNT.
Linden Lab has now banned both Maltos Sosa and KingsEstate Short for alt abuse by Frank Corsi.
Please continue to be on the lookout for other accounts popping up telling the same old lies."


The Today sl-newspaper recieved this email:

"Central Grid will be providing a direct response to Barb Carson's false allegationss towards Central Grid. She never invested money in CG. She purchased regions that she still owns. The reason she left as an owner was that she was greedy. She had 25% ownership. Marcus Vendetta left as an owner on his own terms. His percentage of ownership was to be divided between the remaining owners. Barb was not willing to accept an even 5% raise to each owner. She wanted more. She openly told us all that if she did not get more than that she would walk away as an owner. We allowed her to leave. She porceeded to remove herself from the the CG group in SL. She was an owner of this group. Owners of groups cannot be removed by anyone else. This is one example of how she walked away on her own. All current owners of Central Grid are availble for response. Any copying of these false allegations from the BNT website or from Barb Carson will be exposed as liable. "

We will let you, the public, decide and make no judgements here. We will of course be looking into this more closely in the next few days.

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GOOD NEWS For ACE

Data From SLQuotes.com

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ACE releases security risk info as a warning:

On Friday Intlibber Brautigan announced on the ACE Ancapistan website that a sercurity risk had been discovered that could allow those with specialised knowledge to recover the ATM scripts in bytecode format and transform them back into LSL scripting when ATMs were taken over parcel or sim borders.
Mr Brautigan informed Soft Linden of this vulnerability. However this breach was not unknown in fact it had been reported as much as a couple of months ago, Linden lab did not see fit to inform the residents. A patch was sent out about 4 weeks ago, but, because it was kept so quiet there may be many who didn't know of this and they may need to update their scripts.
Mr Brautigan also tried to inform SLeXchange of the possible threat with little response at the time, since then this message has appeared on the SLX forum:
"I just wanted to post here to reassure you all that there is no reason to worry; there is no security breach. Your account information, your items, and your L$ and USD are safe.
SL Exchange has been a viable and reliable service functioning securely with and within Second Life for almost four years. Shortly after first launching the site it became obvious that LSL scripts should not be "trusted" to A) work correctly or B) be secure. It is for that reason that the bulk of our security as well as nearly all of our logic / intelligence resides on our own servers. Furthermore, these routines have been specifically engineered and fine-tuned over the years so that problems with Second Life such as technical failures, security exploits, or whatever else, will have the least effect possible to SL Exchange."

Hopefully with the patch in place and very few people actually able to take advantage of this hole not too much damage has/will be done.
Its good to see some warning others of the possible threat though - maybe there is hope for human nature out there in our little world of SL.

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