Wow. SLingo was one of my main leisures, back in 2006, as soon as I decided to transfer some money into SL. I’m probably not a typical gambling victim, but I loved the socializing and the risky atmosphere (well, at least for a mid-20 housewife, as a marketing AI once called me, lol).

After the ban of gambling in SL, there was a new generation of money games, that are not completely based on good luck (at least in the eye of the beholder, or the board of linden lab examiners, who had to permit the games). Zyngo, basically the good old Slingo Solo (which was the only thing where I actually earned money, although it was far too time consuming), is one of the most seen slot machines nowadays.

And guess what (or read the headline): It was hacked. Harhar^^ Dusan Writer has all about it, here is the original article. (I’m not sure about the injection vector, but how about a massive multilisten engine, or a similar thing to catch llLinkedMessages?)

As I often tell my Won’t-Be-Customers: I have not enough criminal energy to really get into that materia, but it’s interesting…^^

Edit: I just played a round of so-called Slingo at Yahoo Games (that basically sucks, since the “Spin” button tells you, when there is no more klicks to do, but you get a grip of how it goes), and while my mind had some spare time, some thing went though my head. Tringo was the ancestor of SLingo. And that was programmed by Kermitt Quick, who also did the early versions of xyText. And, hey. nobody less than me, Torrid Luna wrote a totally new, shorter, and understandable version of xyText, that even provides custom logos and Umlaute. Hey, Is it a bad sign, that I stopped moaning about LSL and start missing features of that language in Python or Perl?

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