🚀 go-pugleaf

Yea that's old news.  They were sued for it and I never found out what
happened.  I think they released a patch or something...


DoonMan wrote in message <366498A8.DEEE7E70@stmarys.ca>...
>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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