Is Dead Souls secure?
No running Internet software I know of is “secure” in the sense that you don’t need to continually pay attention to it. Just like any other Internet program you use, Dead Souls is not an obvious security risk, so long as it is not used carelessly. And, of course, games of any kind, including Dead Souls, should never be installed on any mission-critical, national security, public safety, or health care server. Dead Souls security involves two separate spheres: 1) The binary executable and the system that runs it. 2) The mudlib and the code that you use and create. The first sphere is probably most important. Presumably you plan to run a mud on a computer that does other things too, and you want to keep those things separate from your mud. The most important thing to do is to avoid running Dead Souls as a privileged user. In the case of Windows, this means that the program should not be run by Administrator or anyone in the Administrator group. For unix users, this means that the driver
