WoW Spyware....

[Schadenfroh]

Oh nos!

are they going to steal my credit card number

 

[Chompman]

Blizzard owns us in spirit since we can't stop playing the game so not much more they can do to us...

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777

Originally posted by: RBachman
Old news. I'm usually staunchly against invasions of privacy, but in this case I'm behind Blizzard. Cheaters in online games should die :|

I am with RBachman in this situation. Normally it would bother me, but under the circumstances, it dos not. I hate cheaters in online gaming.... :-/

Agreed, anything they need to do to catch cheaters without wrecking my hardware or software is fine with me.

 

[jdport]

I have no problem with what blizzard is doing.. i do have somewhat of a problem with the fact that it's legal. Yes they are putting it into an unreadable hash, but that doesn't mean they have to. Yes they are using the info for a good purpose, that doesn't mean that the next application that does this will be so noble. If this is legal then putting a wiretap on your lines so that they can see who you are talking to... going through your mailbox so that they can see who you are doing business with and who you are getting mail from... picking through your trash that you put out for trash pickup so that they can see what you've used over the last week... all of those things should be legal too. This is no different. Microsoft itself is one of the most guilty parties out there. They know all kinds of stuff about you that you don't necessarily know you are telling them. It should not be legal. I'm all for stopping cheaters, but they should not be allowed to snoop through my computer to see what i've got stored, what i'm looking at , or what i'm doing.

I saw this on another forum talking about the same topic.. and found it quite funny (if in fact you can be banned based on window titlebars)

Put "WoW!Inmate" in your MSN messenger name (e.g "TTLoonie - I love WoW!Inmate") - then send a simple "Hi" to your friends on MSN... which, of course, would open a chat window on their computers with the title: "TTLoonie - I love WoW!Inmate - Conversation"... causing friends who have WoW running to be banned... hehehehe?

If this works... hehehe... imagine what it'll be like if hundreds or thousands of protesters against Blizzards spyware / pranksters / people who play WoW and have rivals on WoW whom they want banned (even temporarily.. lol)... did this Razz

LOLOLOL... imagine the hundreds or thousands of angry emails, letters, forum posts and phone calls that Blizzard will get from their customers... hehe...

 

[NeoV]

what the hell is wow!Inmate anyway?