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Second Life Hacker Attacker Identified

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A Second Life attack group has been identified as the perpetrators of last week's attack on the virtual HQ of U.S. Presidential candidate John Edwards.

This has been unfair for Edwards. His online outreach has been flawless, and this was an unofficial site created by a volunteer. It became randomly-selected target of an organized group of in-world pranksters who prefer attacking with server-clogging floods of an image of Nintendo's Mario -- or giant advancing
posters of Jell-o Pudding Pops spokesman Bill Cosby.