Blizzard seeking to block user rights, privacy

[mzkhadir]

Slashdot

 

[oynaz]

 

[skace]

Good. For. Blizzard.

People always bitch about hackers and cheaters, but when someone successfully starts shutting them down, then they fvcking bitch about invasion of privacy of their virus scanner. I love it.

 

[Double Trouble]

Anyone who willingly allows some program to take essentially unknown actions on their computer and then phone home and send data back to outside servers is nuts. There's no way I'd let "Warden" or any other such spyware run on my PC's......

 

[torpid]

I'm pretty sure blizzard has a legal right to do this. I don't see the problem. The wording of the thread title is just a bunch of lame paranoid fearmongering.

 

[Juno]

good, i don't play any blizzard games.

 

[Luthien]

Blizzard suck so yay

 

[Vortex22]

Here's what the "warden" does. It was explained by a Blizzard developer a while ago after massive uninformed whining.

It looks at all currently running processes on the computer, and compares them to a locally stored list of known hacking programs - this is all done CLIENT SIDE, with no information being sent.
The only information warden sends over the internet is a simple "yes" there is a hack or "no" there isn't.

 

[paulxcook]

Another reason not to play WoW.

 

[Aharami]

the bigger a company gets...

 

[Vortex22]

Also, the reason for all this is because morons who don't know anything about security are constantly getting their accounts hacked from infected mod/addon/"hack" downloads. Just look at the WoW GM forum and you will see pages and pages of people whining that it's Blizzard's fault they we're morons and got a keylogger on their computer when they tried to download "wow hacks".