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Article #860blizzards unacceptable behaviour
From: DoonMan
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00
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This is true it's not a joke ! ----------------------------------------------------------- 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e73,87676a16e27f8075,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e73,public X-Google-Thread: 10acdc,87676a16e27f8075,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10acdc,public X-Google-Thread: 105b91,87676a16e27f8075,start X-Google-Attributes: gid105b91,public X-Google-Thread: 101711,87676a16e27f8075,start X-Google-Attributes: gid101711,public From: DoonMan <root@stmarys.ca> Subject: blizzards unacceptable behaviour Date: 1998/12/01 Message-ID: <366498A8.DEEE7E70@stmarys.ca> X-Deja-AN: 417682114 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: columbia.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: dal.general,alt.games.starcraft,alt.games.warcraft,alt.games.warcraft.draenor