Midori Fairlona
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- Joined
- Nov 16, 2006
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- UK
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- Federation of Free Wanderers
- Avatar Name
- Midori Beretrena Fairlona
Hi everyone.
Just here to report a minor bug that in a few odd occasions could be used maliciously.
When a female avatar wearing some form of stiletto boot is scanned, they appear to levitate slightly into the air. If scanned again the height of levitation increases, until the avatar is high in the sky.
Before any of you think this is a good way to get to those hard to reach mining claims, the levitation is only an illusion. To the person doing the scanning the avatar appears to be high in the sky, but to everyone else they have never left the spot on which they were standing.
The only reason I am reporting this here is that on a screenshot this bug looks very similar to the levitation exploit used in the PvP rings. This is depicted in the third screenshot below where I caused someone to appear to levitate inside the ring (the height of the levitation is small as I saw no need to drain my scanner, but the bug could be used to take a malicious screenshot to damage another's rep).
This bug has now been reported in a support case.
In case any of you are thinking I should not have made people aware of this bug, I have spoken to one other avatar already that knew about this long before I did. As it is already in the public domain, reporting it to the community can only help to protect a potential victim's reputation.
Provided below are the screenshots that I took. None of the avatars shown below exploited a bug or did anything else wrong. They are merely a demonstration of what the scanning bug looks like.
Moderators, please move this thread if you feel there is a more appropriate forum for it. Thank you.
Just here to report a minor bug that in a few odd occasions could be used maliciously.
When a female avatar wearing some form of stiletto boot is scanned, they appear to levitate slightly into the air. If scanned again the height of levitation increases, until the avatar is high in the sky.
Before any of you think this is a good way to get to those hard to reach mining claims, the levitation is only an illusion. To the person doing the scanning the avatar appears to be high in the sky, but to everyone else they have never left the spot on which they were standing.
The only reason I am reporting this here is that on a screenshot this bug looks very similar to the levitation exploit used in the PvP rings. This is depicted in the third screenshot below where I caused someone to appear to levitate inside the ring (the height of the levitation is small as I saw no need to drain my scanner, but the bug could be used to take a malicious screenshot to damage another's rep).
This bug has now been reported in a support case.
In case any of you are thinking I should not have made people aware of this bug, I have spoken to one other avatar already that knew about this long before I did. As it is already in the public domain, reporting it to the community can only help to protect a potential victim's reputation.
Provided below are the screenshots that I took. None of the avatars shown below exploited a bug or did anything else wrong. They are merely a demonstration of what the scanning bug looks like.
Moderators, please move this thread if you feel there is a more appropriate forum for it. Thank you.
