Google searches against IP an address can sometimes make quick work of linking real life with Second Life, for better or worse. However, with 4600 avatars sharing at least one IP address, Fractured Crystal’s datamine certainly contains clues to alternate accounts of more than a few players.īut connecting the dots for alternate accounts may not be the most significant risk for Second Life players profiled surreptitiously by the Modular Systems. Some of these shared IP addresses were used by very large numbers of avatars, suggesting shared gateways or proxies. About 10% of the IP addresses are used by more than one avatar. There are just under 21,000 unique IP addresses in the database - many of the 16,000+ players appear multiple times. The database was apparently populated between early January and April 2010, based on the timestamps found in the leaked dump.įractured Crystal is too busy to talk about his data mining operation Emerald Dev’s Modular Systems Data Mine Tracks 16,740 Avatarsīy Pixeleen Mistral on 17/05/10 at 8:32 pmĭocuments recently leaked from the web site include a dump of a secret “datamine” data base containing over 39,000 entries tracking 16,740 Second Life players, detailing avatar name, avatar key, and IP address.
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