Proof That All It Takes To Kill The Internet Is Something Shiny?

[Dubh Aingeal]

At 2:46 CST today, the game Second Life was hit by a massive attack by a rogue programmer. Spinning gold rings began to appear in the air and on the ground, and as users interacted with them they began to chase and replicate. Apparently, most people are willing to touch an object they've never seen before and this invoked a worm script that was designed to multiply and spread across the 2,700+ servers run by Linden Labs in California, the game's owner. Many of the six hundred thousand active users experienced serious lag and lost connectivity to the servers, making it one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks in an online game. Linden Labs had to invoke martial law and lock out all logins by users except their staff as they began the task of cleaning the servers of what they began to term 'the grey goo.'

[kellygrrrrrl]

these water wings don't work at all!

[BrassFusion]

Oooooooo Piece of candy!

Oo, piece of candy!

[Soulrev]

ooo piece of candy!

hahaha that's my favorite scene.