Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Acanthus
If you dont like wow scanning its home directory for modded files, dont play wow.
Its not spyware, its common friggin sense that they need to do that to prevent cheating.
Did you even bother to read the article the OP linked to? :roll:
Mr Hoglund found that The Warden also scans the text in the title bars of any Window for any other program.
Writing in his blog about what he found Mr Hoglund said: "I watched The Warden sniff down the e-mail addresses of people I was communicating with on MSN, the URL of several websites that I had open at the time, and the names of all my running programs...
Digital rights group The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) branded The Warden "spyware" and said its use constituted "a massive invasion of privacy"."
The EFF said that it was not acceptable simply to take Blizzard's word that it did nothing with the information it gathered. It added that the Blizzard could get away with using The Warden because information about it was buried in licence agreements that few people read.
Sure sounds like spyware to me. Also sounds like it's doing a lot more than just scanning its home directory. Blizzard's approach of hiding the spyware information in the EULA is even more worrisome.
I was thinking about joining up and playing WoW, but now I think I'll pass.
