🚀 go-pugleaf

That is why I will try to run StarCraft on Linux with Wine (anybody
succeded ?)

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Daniel Léonard
Computer Science Student                  "Anything worthwhile takes time"
Université de Montréal                       -Phong in Enzo the Smart, Reboot
http://www.jsp.umontreal.ca/~leonard (currently chaotic)

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, DoonMan wrote:

) This is true it's not a joke !
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) 
) I am writing to inform ya and the rest of the world about blizzards
) unacceptable
) behaviour. This was first spoted by Beowulf of rzr and I give him full
) credit, I
) am so disturbed about his discovery that I feel I have to let people
) know.So far
) no one seems to care with Starcraft players being to preoccupied in
) their games....
) 
) Apparently Starcraft being a program running on your pc is privliged by
) the os to
) access the registry of win95 and illegaly extract sensitive information
) about ya,
) like name and e-mail address.
) 
) According to beowulf this are the keys beign accessed
) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)\User Info\DefName
) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Mail and News\Mail\Sender
) Name
) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Netscape Navigator\User\User_Name
) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Mail and News\Mail\Sender
) EMail
) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Netscape\Netscape Navigator\User\User_Addr
) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kali\Kali95\User Info\email
) 
) I did a registry check and it contained my real name.
) If u try to connect to battlenet without a valid key either cause u have
) the warez
) version or you made a mistake,your information is logged onto their
) system.
) 
) I feel that this practice is unacceptable and If we dont make a stand
) against it
) now,every company and every individual can start to violate our privacy
) for his own
) personal reasons. Note that the registry contains passwords and every
) concernign
) u and ur pc..and even though the passwords are encoded, I am sure there
) will be a
) way to crack them.
) 
) Finally I enclose the proof, as presented again by beowulf which I thank
) for his
) discovery. I feel I can never trust my pc anymore,and how cna we know
) that microsoft hasnt
) been doing that for years.
) 
) BigBadWolf
) 
) 
) I have since verified this for myself..and it is true..
) they even extracted my local settings i.e country etc...
) this is sooo lame and i am soo pissed off please make sure the word is
) out on how
) lame they are..if they dont get a response they will jsut keep on doing
) it
) 
) 
) 
) 
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