The Mr. Bingle incident seems similar to getting your identity stolen, which he did in terms of the MOO. Stolen identity and Mr.Bingle both are a pain to deal with, because they claim to be you and they have enough documentation to prove it (which in most cases is not a lot). They reap the benefits of being you by taking out credit cards and buying things, like Mr.Bingle using people to launch attacks on each other. Then finally, once you have been ravaged you have the task of putting the pieces back together, and convincing others that it was not really you at all who committed the acts.
Like in our world, I am sure it’s hard to tell and deal with identity in a MOO. So much time and emotion is invested the fact that someone could easily destroy it is a scary idea. Perhaps all social system struggles with identity issues, and how one should properly identify themselves using cards and logins. Because it seems like the story of “Cyber Rape” shares many similar ideas as real life identity theft.
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I never thought of linking cyber rape and stolen identity, but yes the voodoo doll program in the MOO is pretty much stealing someone else’s identity. Instead of thinking of credit card theft though, I at first thought of myspace theft. How many accounts are hacked and stolen and them they start posting spam on the hacked accounts friends. This is so much what happened in the story because of what could be done with it. Myspace is like the communication of life to some people, checking it more than 10 times a day, sometimes being on it for over 2 hours. Whatever you account posts on any other’s account is thought of to be you and only you, many fights have broken out over ‘top friends’ and what someone might have wrote. It’s more personal than what was done in the story, but pretty close to what could happen if a person like that could get control of people instead of just people’s characters.
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