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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Broken on July 08, 2010, 02:33:21 PM

Title: RealID to expose WoW Players full names
Post by: Broken on July 08, 2010, 02:33:21 PM: Starting with the glaring security issue with RealID in game exposing your information via simple scripts that can be burried in addon's, Blizzard is going a step further and will be exposing your full name in the official forums (new version) that will be released with SCII.

Looks like I will be creating an alternate account under the name Sukama Balza and transferring my main.

Forums are nuking over this as well: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=2073 (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=2073)

2k+ pages and 40k+ posts.
Title: Re: RealID to expose WoW Players full names
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on July 08, 2010, 02:40:33 PM: It doesn't bother me at all. I don't post on blizzard forums. But for others I can forsee this being a problem.
Title: Re: RealID to expose WoW Players full names
Post by: Broken on July 08, 2010, 02:44:35 PM: I have been active on those forums for years. It is a shame to see this going forward.

I am not worried about my personal safety as I have many weapons at my disposal, but ID theft is the bigger threat.
Title: Re: RealID to expose WoW Players full names
Post by: Curse_desreveR on July 08, 2010, 03:40:13 PM: I wanna be John Trust!
Title: Re: RealID to expose WoW Players full names
Post by: Broken on July 09, 2010, 12:04:41 PM: Good news. Looks like the almost 2.5k pages and near 50k plus posts protesting real names got through to them.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25968987278&sid=1 (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25968987278&sid=1)

"we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums"
Title: Re: RealID to expose WoW Players full names
Post by: Agent4054 on July 09, 2010, 11:54:45 PM: No surprise. Thing is, I thought they would've been smart enough to know that before all this. Damn attention whores.