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blizzards unacceptable behaviour

#860
From: DoonMan
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00
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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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From: DoonMan <root@stmarys.ca>
Subject: blizzards unacceptable behaviour
Date: 1998/12/01
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