‘In
brightest day, in blackest night,
No
evil shall escape my sight!
Let
those who worship evil’s might,
Beware
my power… Green Lantern’s light!’
Photograph Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6xHP91QDy0
The Green Lanterns have taken their name
from the comic book. In Second Life they are the neighborhood watchers. They
dress like the original Green Lanterns original comic characters and patrol the
grid to assist residents off griefers attack and help new residents. Over the
years they have filed several reports to Linden Labs. They also play a role in
training the land owners about security arrangements. They offer free training
and uniforms to members who wish to join the force. They have started maintaining
a live help chat since June, 2014.
Here is the link http://lanternalliance.com/irc.htm.
No extra Hud or group space is required; no chat interface, just a log in and
you are good to go. SL peacekeepers monitor this channel. Visit their
headquarters in The Unknown Country http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Unknown%20Country/171/152/2022
In the past few months you might have heard
of a link that seem to take to the market place, but instead it has hacking the
profile passwords and withdrawing large amounts. You would always hear these
from group chats or notices. One such threat I heard, and would like to share
with you.
On 23rd November, 2014 BlackAngel Firehawk informed of a Hack Link
Warning, “In some Groups today my friend is noticing a link being passed out
with the letters MY3GB in it....looks like a Market place link...DO NOT CLICK
THIS LINK it will hack your account. Warning do not click on any link with the
letters "MY3GB" in it, It takes over your account changes password
they buy the max L$ and transfer to different account and cash out and use your
account to pass same link to all friends.”
If you hear any of the sorts or any other
griefer, do not forget to call the Green Lanterns. To know more about them and
their work process, I contacted, the founder, Hal Jordan, Green Lantern
Excelsior and I had the honor of speaking with him.
Debby
Sharma: How has 2014 been in terms of security?
Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Excelsior): We
have not seen the large amount of organized group griefing that has plagued SL
in the past. The gigantic problem that seems to be catching many people off
guard is a phishing scheme where people get their accounts hijacked, and the
hijacker sends out links to a fake SL Marketplace website where residents might
carelessly enter their SL username and password. It's too bad people fall for
that.
Debby
Sharma: What steps are you taking and what steps should we take to prevent
that?
Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Excelsior): I have
seen blog entries and group notices several times about this issue. In some
cases it will be a caution to not click on links sent out from some specific
person, and in other cases it will be a general "beware" notice to be
careful what links you click on. I don't know if Linden Lab has sent any
messages about this problem. It is difficult to educate everyone about schemes
like this, because there are so many bogus urban legend notices going around
that sometimes it's hard to tell which is a legitimate problem and which is
just something made up to slander another resident.
I've seen notices cautioning people not to
click on links or accept items from some specific resident because they will
steal all your Lindens or send a virus to your PC or some other incredible
claim. I think some of those are just people having a feud with another
resident and trying to besmirch the other person's reputation.
If people would just take the time to look
at an Internet address and make sure that it really goes to secondlife.com,
many of these problems could be avoided.
Debby
Sharma: I wanted to ask, do you give training to land owners, if so, is there
any schedule for classes?
Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Excelsior): I have
a 2010 griefer presentation that covers parcel security. I haven't made up a
schedule for doing training because people haven't been asking me to train
them. The presentation is here: https://sites.google.com/site/herouniversepeacekeepers/parcel-security.
I would be happy to go to people's parcels and help them with their security if
they are interested. We never charge for any of our services, so it's all free.
Photograph Credits: http://thegreenlanterns.wordpress.com
Debby
Sharma: There are levels at the landmark, each level as a specific color, what
do they denote?
Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Excelsior): In the
Green Lantern comics there was a story line around 2009-2010 that created
several different types of Lanterns beyond the green variety. The story was
about the "emotional spectrum" associated with each type of Lantern.
The Green Lanterns operate on the emotion of willpower, since their power rings
can create anything their minds can imagine. The other spectrum colors operate
on different emotions, rage (red), greed (orange), fear (yellow), hope (blue),
compassion (indigo), and love (violet). There is also black, representing
death, and white, representing life.
Debby
Sharma: Do you have departments for each?
Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Excelsior): We
have the entire Lantern emotional spectrum groups represented at http://lanternalliance.com/, along with
several other affiliated peacekeeper groups. We are all on the same side and
generally we have the same goals, to help Second Life residents, whether it be
reporting griefers, helping new residents, or assisting venue owners with
security.
Debby
Sharma: I was looking at the application of The Green Lanterns, what specific
skills does one require to be a member?
Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Excelsior): We
have a wide range of skills that people can use everything from negotiating
with griefers to helping new residents to event security. Talents in scripting,
building, creating clothing and everything else associate with SL is welcome.
The only requirement we have is that a new member must be 180 days old in
Second Life, but we have discussed that and decided that a resident can be an
associate member from day one if they want to. We just can't give them a free
Green Lantern power ring until they're 180 days old.
Photograph Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8J6xQc9mdw
Debby
Sharma: What would be the new projects for 2015?
Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Excelsior): We
have discussed creating a welcome center for new residents, with freebies and
note cards and links to helpful websites. The idea is in its infancy at the
moment but we have enough members that we should be able to create something of
value. We are all about helping people and this is just another way to do that.
Reference Links:
·
Blog Green Lanterns http://thegreenlanterns.wordpress.com
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Second Life Wiki http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/The_Green_Lanterns
·
Second Life Enquirer http://www.slenquirer.com/2013/11/the-green-lanterns-of-second-life.html
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Second Life Wikia http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/The_Green_Lantern_Corps_Headquarters
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