EPTOn July 07 2010 15:55 Sylvr wrote:
Very relevant:
Very relevant:
hahaha amazing
Bnet forums to be Real Name Only - Page 80
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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EleanorRIgby
Canada3923 Posts
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SequorNubilum
United States13 Posts
I think this is a terrible ID. If someone really wanted to come after you they have the potential to. This is made easier for people with less common names, so people with common names think they are safe right? If someone was really committed to coming after you, they would. All it takes is an IP address and they have a reasonable area to search for you, and with the forums have your real name, they can narrow it down even further. Don't believe me? Go to cmyip.com. Type it into the google search bar. It will most likely show a location that is near you. They can then google your full name and the area which they found you in. The result could be 100 but that is a lot less than several thousand isn't it. This is all hypothetical of course but it actually happened on a video game recently. Not sure if someone posted this or not but here it is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7771505/Video-game-fanatic-hunts-down-and-stabs-rival-player-who-killed-character-online.html. Back on topic. This is ridiculous by Blizzard. Don't know what they are trying to do but man, this really gets me. | ||
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Zerksys
United States569 Posts
On July 07 2010 02:52 Tray wrote: As I said, it's simple. People are less likely to post ridiculous things if it is linked to their real name. Discussion over. If that doesn't convince you, nothing will and your mind is already made up. Either way, that is what will happen once this goes live, and it will. Less people will post retarded shiat. You're either willfully ignorant, or you're one of the trolls who's afraid he won't be able to spam the boards with his ignorance of the game during lunchtime. Either way I'm done with you and I'm glad you're losing what you believe to be some inherent right. It's a private forum by a private company. If you don't like it, don't post. I really think that you're the ignorant one. Sure people will be less inclined to post trolly things online, but at what cost. Blizzard is already giving out your email, first, and last name. Why do you not see that this is a huge security issue? Not all of us are 13 years old with nothing to loose by giving out information other than perhaps a hacked email. No discussion is not over. | ||
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peffi
Germany44 Posts
what i wanted to ask you, where did you find this? | ||
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pheus
Australia161 Posts
lol obviously fake... + Show Spoiler + there aren't that many white guys at A level on iccup | ||
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StaR_Robo
Australia229 Posts
On July 07 2010 15:04 JinMaikeul wrote: If it's anything that has a billing system, you will have to use your real name (ie. World of Warcraft). In the case of Starcraft 2, I imagine there's nothing to prove your identity, however, as was said earlier in the thread, should you ever need some sort of assistance from Blizzard such as you account getting hacked, you will need to prove your identity with some sort of photo ID or something before they will help you. So if you don't use your real name, you do so at your own risk because if you lose your account, you lose it for good. And since CD-Keys are now tied specifically to accounts, that also means you will need to go out and buy a new copy of the game to play it again. Just because it is associated with a billing system doesn't mean you have to have a real name. B.Net has quite happily accepted credit card details with a name that doesn't match the name of the account holder for a WoW subscription in the past and in WoW there are options to pay by time card that mean you don't even have to use a credit card (although you did have to enter one when first establishing your account). The real problem comes, as has already been pointed out, if your account gets compromised and you need to prove your identity to get it back. | ||
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ghosthunter
United States414 Posts
Also this still makes people easier to ignore due to centralized accounts (Bnet forums have always had the ignore button lately, however it only ignored one character on the account. This allows you to blanket ignore bigots, which is always a plus). I'd rather have my racists be accountable for their choice of words than anonymous and malicious, but that's just me. | ||
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
absolutely awesome. I thought they banned making these movies because of copyright stuff though? | ||
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ourson
France27 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2048/micah.jpg) | ||
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Ikiron
United States88 Posts
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/733742-Grats-Blizzard-on-releasing-an-unsecure-Real-ID-system. This is mind boggling to me. ___________________________________ Grats Blizzard on releasing an unsecure Real ID system. So... /run for i=1,100 do if BNIsSelf(i)then BNSendWhisper(i,"RealID whisper from yourself..");break end end Type that in game and look what comes up. Recognize the name? Yeah... thanks blizzard for allowing anyone who makes an addon to add that to their code to extract personal details strait from WoW. Just be warned when updating or downloading new addons. I could be grabbing your personal info. Real ID is very win... ty blizz.... I HAVE REPORTED THIS TO BLIZZARD... why do people keep telling me to do this... Picture of my mouseover macro exploiting this flaw: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6942/ridmover.jpg Sweet, now I can't hide anywhere! | ||
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Whiztard
United States227 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + With the recent announcement of the real life ID forum integration, how much will you take before you decide to, straight out, leave the Blizzard community and/or boycott Blizzard products? It might sound extreme, but seriously, there has been too many twists and turns that Blizzard has been making recently, that it seems like as if they're changing their whole stance on the gaming community, making it more about the money. Please allow me to summarize the events that brought on multiple threads of controversy. LAN functionality Unconcern about chatrooms Removal of friend message from B.Net Making it difficult to add non-rl friends on B.Net 2.0 without revealing real ID Console-ish interface for SCII No cross realm play Facebook Integration Making all forum IDs real IDs Granted, some of the above have its reasons, such as protection vs piracy. The thing is, I want to know how many of you are on the edge of abandoning Blizzard, and if not, how much more you'll take. Personally, if this were to happen to any other company, I would abandon them for any one of the above reasons. But, this is Blizzard we're talking about here. I could take some more shit thrown at me, seeing as how much I love their games before,....but I gotta say though, I'm not exactly far from considering the boycott method either. of course, I can see why, I'm clearly taking away their sales with my topic, lol. | ||
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ghosthunter
United States414 Posts
On July 07 2010 16:34 Drowsy wrote: absolutely awesome. I thought they banned making these movies because of copyright stuff though? Nah, and sorry to derail. The company that made the movie is a documentary. They gave the video to google and told them to ensure it wasn't being posted in its entirety without realizing what was going to happen to all the hitler videos. They realized afterwards that they liked the videos and didn't intend for them to get taken down, as they are basically free viral marketing and people enjoy it, so they had them reinstated pretty quickly afterwards (like, within 24 hours). As a side note, the reason why is also because its much more effective for companies to place ads for you to buy the product on the side than take the video down, because after watching you may be interested in purchasing whatever it is you watched (especially in the case of music). Which makes sense and is a much more enforceable policy (you also benefit from free advertising). But I digress. Just letting you know  | ||
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ghosthunter
United States414 Posts
On July 07 2010 16:35 Ikiron wrote: Not only are you not safe on the forums, it seem someone found a little exploit with the real name id thing. http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/733742-Grats-Blizzard-on-releasing-an-unsecure-Real-ID-system. This is mind boggling to me. ___________________________________ Grats Blizzard on releasing an unsecure Real ID system. So... /run for i=1,100 do if BNIsSelf(i)then BNSendWhisper(i,"RealID whisper from yourself..");break end end Type that in game and look what comes up. Recognize the name? Yeah... thanks blizzard for allowing anyone who makes an addon to add that to their code to extract personal details strait from WoW. Just be warned when updating or downloading new addons. I could be grabbing your personal info. Real ID is very win... ty blizz.... I HAVE REPORTED THIS TO BLIZZARD... why do people keep telling me to do this... Picture of my mouseover macro exploiting this flaw: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6942/ridmover.jpg Sweet, now I can't hide anywhere! Please read what you quote, which is a thread in which people refute what he says constantly, as people had been testing this since 3.3.5 ptr had come out. I know just quoting things is fun and exciting! But actually having content that is true is also useful. | ||
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javy_
United States1677 Posts
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Ikiron
United States88 Posts
On July 07 2010 16:39 ghosthunter wrote: Please read what you quote, which is a thread in which people refute what he says constantly, as people had been testing this since 3.3.5 ptr had come out. I know just quoting things is fun and exciting! But actually having content that is true is also useful. Look at the picture, I notice some real names there :O | ||
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ghosthunter
United States414 Posts
On July 07 2010 16:41 Ikiron wrote: Look at the picture, I notice some real names there :O Yeah, and then there's still no one else in the thread confirming what he's said as true, and a lot of people saying that he just photoshopped it. There's also no confirmation of this on the wow-hack sites, or really anywhere else. Which leads to the point that he probably photoshopped it because he likes trolling and fear mongering. Probably because there's no ramifications for doing either since it's an anonymous forum and his trolling isn't linked to his real name which would probably discourage him. OH SHIZ I JUST WENT THERE. | ||
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bubblegumbo
Taiwan1296 Posts
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Chesner
Iceland817 Posts
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