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LA INGENIERÍA SOCIAL EN SECOND LIFE

Originally this post was going to try about my misadventures my inventory and ordering landmarks but a number of factors combined to speak for something a little deeper and serious and has the potential to affect everyone equally.

I just got the mail from my avatar a "statement" of Banamex saying that my account additional protection needed to click a link to validate the authenticity of my identity or else could not do transactions in your system Bancanet. E is excellently written and seeing everywhere easily pass as an official communication from the bank including the address where he was sent except one small detail: as far as I Banamex managed accounts in Linden Dollars and save my account in SL account has no money of any kind, much less am a client of Banamex (remember my e-mail is my avatar). That my love is what is called social engineering and basically refers to the weakest component of the security of an information system is the human user himself. What does this mean? Basically that movies have misled us by making us believe that hackers are antisocial geeks a lot of comics fans are extremely intelligent 8 monitors and then they're typing as insane things incomprehensible to most fatal to enter computers Pentagon, FBI and in general to any computer they want. While certainly there must be that kind of hackers who know them all, all in mathematics and programming languages \u200b\u200bis that reality is always easier breaking into a system by attacking the weakest link, or its user and without having much knowledge of technology but rather with social engineering is nothing that tricked people to consciously submit information (or the key to it) to someone who should not. Quickly I remembered having seen the subject in my class e-commerce and e-business and giving a quick glance at my articles in these subjects found that one of the more hackers world famous, a certain Kevin Mitnick says that social engineering is based on four fundamental principles are:

* We all want to help.

* The first movement is always trusted the other.

* We do not like to say No.

* We all like to be praised.

By talking with friends and friends avatars in Second Life, apart from my own experience in this digital universe that continues to be an information system, I realized that there is a high potential risk that our security is breached widely varying ways and not necessarily through the use of very complicated scripts like copybot I've mentioned here, but quite simply using the power of persuasion . and PT Barnum said (for those who do not know is the inventor of the circus including 3 tracks and founder of the world's largest circus that bears his name): "a sucker born every second in this world."

Here I present a series of hypothetical scenarios and real both of which I had learned from other avatars in SL who some of these things have happened or have knowledge that someone would eventually use them against other avatars to cheat them somehow. All these scenarios are, according to some experts in systems that I have consulted and who have avatars in SL, the potential to become a reality at some point by someone smart enough and by their nature are technically feasible based on current characteristics Second Life system. Serve this post as a warning to keep his eyes open and not blindly trust everyone to the first and foremost, to maintain some reservations about our real information by the very nature of the system as well say that "information is power "let's not give anyone the privilege of having some kind of power over us.

SCENARIO 1: THE GIFT

One day, one avatar (known for a long time or a perfect stranger, no matter) sends you an item as a gift. Clothing usually have clearly identifiable icons in your inventory as such, unless it is the classic legend "I am a (a) ... (add here the insult that strikes your fancy)" anyone can add are harmless, the problem is with another class of objects that are not always what they seem. Some jokes may be simple but others may have the potential to become highly humiliating and make you a bad time. Is from the classic balloon someone gives to another avatar and that dress you high into the air without stopping, the classic "flower" is actually an animation of flatulence and generally anything that tell us the name that is one thing and reality is somewhat different. Heard around the case of an insanely jealous avatar that sent him to another which he said was his great friend, a subject who claimed to be a jewel, the other to receive it thinking it was a gift of good faith of his "friend" puts it in reality was an animation that made it very unpleasant positions dance and shout to the 4 winds and nonstop "I'm a bitch."
The lesson: never accept foreign objects and familiar people, more trust Have you ever tries to dress your avatar directly to the first, try to first pull them from your inventory into the world to see if reality is what you said it.

SCENARIO 2: THE FALSE MIND OF SAVINGS

a couple of months ago the world of Second Life was shaken by the news that one of the "banks" metaverse largest of the "Ginko Bank" had gone bankrupt, leaving hundreds of avatars without large amounts of lindens they had saved (remember that the linden is convertible to real-world currency) as it had chosen to withdraw their savings institutions actual monetary savings on this "new" way in the virtual universe that promised to pay interest above market rates. By breaking Ginko ran out of their lucrative interests and worse, without your original capital in exchange for getting a "bonus" cash in a few months for amounts not paid ... it goes without saying that the creator of this financial institution, who their clients knew little or nothing of him in the real world faded away as easily as the simple act of giving "log off" to your SL account and removing all those Linden dollars as hard cash. What if Linden Labs can track money movements from that account?, yes, but we must also note that launder money in second life is much easier than in the real world. Just simply create a few clones avatars (and in previous posts I mentioned how easy enough to do that because only one email account) having a shop of some sort, instead of making a transfer of an avatar avatar simply spend money all those lindens that the fraudulent account (or can and in fact to make it better should be more than one place) clone your avatar shop which to be investigated when you can simply claim not to know the type in question and that he has no control over the goods it sells which is a valid argument and presto, instant fraud. The case of a savings account, bank or whatever you call it can be easily repeated as one of the major drawbacks of SL is that a serious and responsible for the real world that wants a presence in the metaverse is identical to a shell company created abusadillo avatar by renting a site and construct a building that looks created by a professional (eg a sim created by real and serious companies like Zenith or Internet Design Architects in no way different from a sim created by a "John Doe" any .) "In real life you would trust a large sum of money to an unknown type with appearance rather than sitting on the dubious bench in a public park just for the fact that promises cuidártelo and pay you interest? ... So why Second Life should be different to that?.

SCENARIO 3: the Odd Couple

I have often talked about what I'm skeptical about romantic relationships in Second Life that go beyond the screen and I recently received evidence that makes me doubt further and show that my position from the beginning was correct. A thing to have a (a) "partner" in SL and quite another to think that you might have a relationship normal healthy loving the person behind the avatar and this is where social engineering becomes a very serious danger not only economically but also our avatar has the potential to become a full risk for our their own personal and special care must be taken in all matters concerning information of our first life. It is well known that there are people behind many avatars who are experts in people and although embabucar everything you read here ring until it's amazing how illogical illogical that people can become when they are manipulated by someone more skilled and worse when there are feelings involved in between (Very true what you said Sprite commercial: "Love makes you stupid.") Usually when a relationship goes beyond the display start SL the usual problems caused because the apparent lack of a sense of the geography of which we rejoice in SL becomes a major problem in the real world (there are those who live in countries or even continents) But that's just the beginning. We must also obviously hopelessly parties begin to share valuable information with your partner and that is a huge problem (I've gotten to know friends who share unashamedly passwords from your emails with their boyfriends) because we all know how often ephemeral unions SL and Today is the tomorrow you love be what else is the most detestable of the planet and always will be dangerous for someone who know do not really know too much about you (I speak it knowingly in my family have lived attempts to kidnap and extortion telephone). The worst thing is that now even in real life you are completely sure who is behind the Messenger account be who they say because I have heard that there are some programs that simulate perfectly the interaction of a person not necessarily webcam your partner, so you can be sure even now that the person you are looking for webcam is the one who claims to be and that has the intent that claims to have. Create an email account under a false name and false entire digital identity is a process that takes less than 3 minutes. The bad intentions of someone behind an "innocent" avatar of SL can be from the lindens desfalcarte your account until more sinister purposes that may sound like a paranoid fantasy, but the facts now seem to go in front of the fantasy, wonder about statistics of "virtual kidnappings," telephone extortion and other crimes involving the violation of private information and you will see that it is a game that someone else knows too much of our early lives.

SCENARIO 4: Pirates a GOOD IDEA

One day you think of a great idea that can revolutionize business in Second Life can be a script, a piece of clothing, a gadget, a building or even a comprehensive concept business, what is the first thing you doing, you tell your best friend in SL who blindly trust in the real world. I do not know is that in fact these "friends" see the potential of your idea and unknowingly have one or more avatars clones which implement it and steal it without "physically" with a rather complicated script plagiandote ssino a concept (or if they are very brazen, they will themselves openly and even fighting with you for any excuse). The problem is that intellectual property in itself is a rather ambiguous concept in the real world, second life we \u200b\u200bare in a land without law in this sense he never could win a lawsuit for plagiarism of something in this universe (to start , "demanding to whom?). For finish grinding, according to the terms of service of Second Life (those endless paragraphs of text incomprehensible that forced us to select the option "I accept" to continue using SL recently) said inter alia that everything in your account and in your inventory after all is owned by Linden Labs, That includes any object, pledge, script or texture you've created. Serve this as a simple warning to anyone with eyes to read, that everyone draw their own conclusions on this scenario.

There are more scenarios where we can be victims of social engineering, just presented these because they are the most common or that I have evidence strong enough to say they are or could be real, so I suggest that you precautions and measures you enjoy your second life but with the caution of today's world where we take three locks on the door of our home and we got off the car without putting the wheel lock, alarm and closing out the insurance, because in addition to an unintended effect of this blog is that he had thought no one of these things will surely come to mind performed by ...

Have a nice day!

Sasha