World of Warcraft peaks into your personal life
It appears that game producer Blizzard Entertainment installs spyware with people who play the game World of Warcraft on line, which is about 4.5 million players.
Every 15 seconds an on the fly downloaded program called the ' The Warden' is scanning the titles of all opened windows, email addresses from your MSN and url's of visited websites to name a few. Even the PGP key manager is not save and can be opened by ' The Warden'.
These accusations come from software programmer Greg Hoglund and the digital civil rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Hoglund describes in his weblog what the program ' The Warden' exactly does.
This so called 'anti cheating software' like Blizzard describes it is nothing more than a big breach of the privacy of the players, according to EFF.
The response of Blizzard is that it is doing nothing with the collected data.
Yeah, right....
Technorati Tags: EFF privacy Security
Every 15 seconds an on the fly downloaded program called the ' The Warden' is scanning the titles of all opened windows, email addresses from your MSN and url's of visited websites to name a few. Even the PGP key manager is not save and can be opened by ' The Warden'.
These accusations come from software programmer Greg Hoglund and the digital civil rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Hoglund describes in his weblog what the program ' The Warden' exactly does.
This so called 'anti cheating software' like Blizzard describes it is nothing more than a big breach of the privacy of the players, according to EFF.
The response of Blizzard is that it is doing nothing with the collected data.
Yeah, right....
Technorati Tags: EFF privacy Security
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