Blizzard Doesn’t Respect Your Privacy
Rookit.com alleges that Blizzard, RTS/RPG producing extraordinaire, is guilty of snooping through the PCs of World of Warcraft owners. This breach of privacy is possible because of a spyware program called “Warden Client” that installs with WoW. Kotaku reports that this program runs every 15 seconds that you’re playing WoW and can “read the window text in the title bar of every window. However, these ain’t windows related to WoW, but any ol’ program running on your computer. ” While the warden client is supposed to track down “cheat-ware”, it clearly goes above and far beyond its call-of-duty.
Update: Apparently the Warden utilizes a form of secure hash-coding to prevent Blizzard from getting any of your personal info from these frequent reports. Blizzard is notified if, and only if, Warden discovers an application on its banned list. So although Blizzard employs a form of intrusive spyware, it does not use it to profit, but rather to maintain a hack-free WoW environment.
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3 Responses to “Blizzard Doesn’t Respect Your Privacy”
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Even if Blizzard hashes the data it rips off your computer, those hashes are still vulnerable to certain kinds of attacks, especially if you can gues at the type of thing (number, password, credit card info) it might be.
Who cares?….really……If ya don’t like it don’t play blizzard games.
they have exceptional servers, and the games are wicked, if u could do better, game and server wise, then be my guest. But if u cant, keep your crying and b.s. off the net cause all u people do is cause problems. And I’m sure if u really don’t want something going into and reading your hash files because you are all scared that someone might find something, well I got nuttin to hide…do you?
PCE
quit bitching
Game in harmony
Dont piss ppl off!!!
so hard not to lmao as 1 dude who looks like a child molester complaining about privacy and 1 dude who says he has nothing to hide not putting his pic on the web.