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Article #862Re: blizzards unacceptable behaviour
From: Phira
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00
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DoonMan wrote in message <366498A8.DEEE7E70@stmarys.ca>... >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. I have win98, im safe yay :D lol > >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. So? It contained that information before, Blizzard didnt put your real name in your own registry >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 > > How do you know what they extracted hmm? How do you know they did anything at all? >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 > Find real evidence
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e73,87676a16e27f8075 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e73,public X-Google-Thread: 10acdc,87676a16e27f8075 X-Google-Attributes: gid10acdc,public X-Google-Thread: 105b91,87676a16e27f8075 X-Google-Attributes: gid105b91,public X-Google-Thread: 101711,87676a16e27f8075 X-Google-Attributes: gid101711,public From: "Phira" <zetjet@terracom.net> Subject: Re: blizzards unacceptable behaviour Date: 1998/12/01 Message-ID: <xg192.311$ww5.27259@homer.alpha.net> X-Deja-AN: 417690838 References: <366498A8.DEEE7E70@stmarys.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 912564381 205.213.64.107 (Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:06:21 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:06:21 CDT Newsgroups: dal.general,alt.games.starcraft,alt.games.warcraft,alt.games.warcraft.draenor