sl key shown in emerald viewer

[reac Feden]

I was told today inworld by someone using the Emerald Viewer that part of the Key that identifies my avatar can be used to identify the approximate rl geograhic zone in which i log in.

"something in there relates to the zones you connect in
they know that you connect to say kent, so if you have someone who's pretending to be usa and they connect in kent"

Is this true ?   I know nothing of the Emerald Viewer.   I would appreciate any comments.

[Eternus Soulstar]

Zena.Zemlja wrote:

 

Did you just reply to your own post?

Ok, it's officially now: you blog too much

 

/me ducks

 

lol

indeed i did

least i havent started posting rebuttals to my own posts yet

[Zena Zemlja]

Eternus.Soulstar wrote:

least i havent started posting rebuttals to my own posts yet

might only be a matter of time

we'll warn ya if you go there, lol

[Braden Tedeschi]

To put it simply, no.

It is a randomly generated number, with no correlation (directly) to your location.

[Marx Dudek]

What scraping?

I went to SL Search, typed in "Prokofy Neva", and got this:

http://world.secondlife.com/resident/02da98ac-3e2e-4e8f-bedc-d0e2a1c670b4

Your UUID is the URL.  Always has been, as far as I can tell.

Filed under "Much Ado About Nothing".

[Marx Dudek]

Visit the Miramare or Watherhead infohubs once.  Daria is a Girl Scout by comparison.

Also, welcome.

[Eternus Soulstar]

hm 

actually, yes.  i can tell by your key that you are very likely located on planet Earth.

probably on or near the surface of the 1/4 of it that is not covered by water.

that can be farther narrowed down, if i can trick you into telling me whether you see penguins and polar bears when you look out your window, assuming i can trust your word on that.

(pimpin' mah new sig)

[Keegan Karillion]

To be technically accurate, the answer is both yes and no.   The UUID or key must be totally unique across the entire SL metaverse.  When one creates a new object (an AV is one kind of object), a special server creates a new UUID.   Since SL is HUGE, no one machine could do this.   Also, if that one server were to die, then SL would come to a grinding halt.  So, this task must be split up amongst multiple servers.  The way this is done it to assign a range of values that each individual server may use.   So, the UUID can be tied to the geographical location of the server used to create it.  However, this task can and is assigned to different servers at different times depending upon their availability and other factors.  The Sl resident has no control over this and Linden Labs publishes no logs which would define this.  Therefore, finding out where someone lives by this method is next to impossible.

However, there are other much more likely means of finding out where someone lives.   LL security is so sloppy as to be a very sick joke.  Word to the wise:  Check your credit card balances often for fraudulent charges.