Today, Zee Linden talked a bit about the Risk API. If you spend much time on secondlife.com, you'll have seen it appear in the sidebar more than once. You might have poked at it to find out what it was all about. Basically it's a system for monitoring account activity, conditions and funds transfers that indicates fraud. Why should you care? After all, you don't commit fraud.Because Zee Linden says that griefers are using the Risk API as a form of techno-social judo to have the accounts of innocent people mass-suspended. In fact, it's even better than goo attacks. Zee's initial message is "Be smart, don't get scammed", but by the end, there's obviously no way to prevent it, since your consent is not required.
