Bruce Schneier personal blog

Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds

schneier.com published 2009-11-25

If you allow players in an online world to penalize each other, you open the door to extortion: One of the features that supported user socialization in the game was the ability to declare that another user was a trusted friend. The feature involved a graphical display that showed the faces of users who had declared…

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