(via Second Life Herald)

A new griefing group, DiSSENTi0N, has released the following communique aimed at Linden Labs, owners of Second Life:

Attention Linden Labs, DiSSENTi0N has been watching you silently as you have become increasingly bold, ignoring the pleas of your customers while slowly destroying the platform known as Second Life.

We have emerged from the chaos as a result of growing fury among the masses. Your unveiling of the new Corporate SL combined with the sudden emergence of so called “Trademark Guidelines” has prompted the founding of a new organization.

DiSSENTi0N has come forth to bear the burden of unleashing utter chaos across the grid. How events unfold from here is up to you.

You will abolish said trademark guidelines and make a public statement apologizing to your customers for your ineptitude within seven days, or else we will release our malicious code to the masses ushering in a new era of chaos.

Furthermore, you will abort your plans to close Second Life to the public. We know of these plans to make SL exclusive to real world businesses and we are revealing them publicly here today and in the attacks that will proceed this message.

At this very moment DiSSENTI0N programmers are developing new code to attack your asset servers and exploit numerous vulnerabilities in your platform. Furthermore, we will make the infamous program known as Copybot public to the masses in effect devastating your economy.

This is your one and only warning. You will learn the error of your ways or DiSSENTi0N will launch a massive campaign systematically dismantling the virtual world known as Second Life.

You can watch the over-dramatic press release video here, complete with Stephen Hawking-style electronic voice synthesiser voiceover.

I shouldn’t imagine Linden Labs are quaking in their boots at this, and it remains to be seen if and how DiSSENTi0N make good their threats. This video shows their previous attempt to disrupt SL through the coding of ’self-replicating megacubes’ sporting their moniker. Undoubtedly disruptive but whether they have the capacity to actually attack the SL infrastructure effectively is open to question.