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Topic: Blizz spying ??
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iowan Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 766 From: Netherlands Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 31 July 2001 05:09
this is an article about blizzard spying on your pc when u play b.net true or false ?? http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid=299&mode=thread&order=0

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BMW Lord
 
Posts: 148 From: Singapore Registered: Feb 2001 |
posted 31 July 2001 05:34
Yes. Its true. Prove this to yourself by using a packet sniffer and connecting to bnet.------------------ Welcome to CyberSpace. Where things are not what they seem.

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Mephistopheles Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1131 From: Portland, Or, USA (kessan dalet) Registered: Mar 2001 |
posted 01 August 2001 11:01
Thats so not cool, I a liked [key word liked] Blizz. Well hmm... I think I now have 2nd thoughts on them.------------------ In A World Of Deceit - Open Your Eyes - Don't Be Afraid And You Relize

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Squall WarLord
  
Posts: 229 From: One Proud American Registered: Feb 2001 |
posted 04 August 2001 18:45
*tries to hide folders of information on iowan*Actually from what i hear yeah it is true,they also said something like a while back that if you use a charcter editor even on your OPEN guys you WILL be banned from battle.net play.I guess items created from them were being leaked into realms somehow or other not quite sure what they are doing or saying on it.Hey is that a doughnut on the floor? *runs* ------------------ Under wondering stars i've grown By myself but not alone I ASK NO ONE! ...and my ties are severed clean The less i have the more i gain Off the beaten path i riegn Rover,Wanderer Nomad,Vagabond Call me what you will....

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MPHG Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 1693 From: simwhere Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 04 August 2001 18:51
Big brother's watching, we watch him back We see right through his disguise He tries to scare us, with angry words But we all know that they're lies Whole world is waiting Just see the fear in their eyes Whole world is watching, observing every move Is it beginning or the end? Just like a chess game, but so intense That I just don't understand Anticipation It's much to big to pretend Big brother's screaming but we don't care Cause he's got nothing to say Think of the future, think of the prophecy Think of the children of today Big brother's marching So we all stand in his way Open your eyes, sisters and brothers Neatly disguised, so far away Open your heart, try to remember Two worlds apart, but so close ~parts of Oingo Boingo's "Wake up (it's 1984)" I figured it fitted here  It's truly sad  ------------------ Master! Apprentice! Heartborne,7th seeker! Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster ~Nightwish Click here for the Extreme mod i'm building

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iowan Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 766 From: Netherlands Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 05 August 2001 01:03
quote: Originally posted by Squall: *tries to hide folders of information on iowan*Actually from what i hear yeah it is true,they also said something like a while back that if you use a charcter editor even on your OPEN guys you WILL be banned from battle.net play.I guess items created from them were being leaked into realms somehow or other not quite sure what they are doing or saying on it.Hey is that a doughnut on the floor? *runs*
if they ban everybody from open that uses a editor , there will be nobody left on open , or almost no-one

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Zhoulomcrist Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 3239 From: USA Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 07 August 2001 02:30
Good thing I use an FSGS server (this system) to do my battle.net playin' instead of that battle.net then .------------------ Great. More junk. Just what I'd expect to find in a sewer.

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isilweo Knight

Posts: 72 From: Poland Registered: May 2001 |
posted 08 August 2001 09:13
poor modders... we all use save editors to test many things in our mods... everyone of us will be baned from bnet? that's not fair ))blizz makes me laugh

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Starwolf Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 535 From: Burton, Ohio Registered: May 2001 |
posted 15 August 2001 17:13
Well, if hackers are getting banned from bnet, I certainly hope the person who hacked into my level 66 barb and gave him considerably less hit points than he should of is hapily playing single player right now.------------------ You know what the difference between you and you five minutes ago is? Five minutes ago you hade 5 minutes to live.

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fecesfaerie Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 275 From: North Carolina Registered: Jul 2001 |
posted 15 August 2001 23:51
I don't know if the article can be found anymore, but a few years ago there was something put up about a lawsuit Blizzard was involved in because of a hard drive sniffing program imbedded into Starcraft (I believe that's the right game). They're persistant if nothing else 

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Starwolf Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 535 From: Burton, Ohio Registered: May 2001 |
posted 16 August 2001 08:43
THEY are a bunch of jerks that need less free time if they're going to spend it making my killing machines vulnerable wimps. It's for that reason why I switched to playing mods. (Plus Eastern Sun is hella fun!)------------------ You know what the difference between you and you five minutes ago is? Five minutes ago you hade 5 minutes to live.

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Little_Marc Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 317 From: The sticks of a Sub-Development Next to a Cornfield Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 04 November 2001 19:55
Yeah... EDITED....  [This message has been edited by Little_Marc (edited 07 November 2001).] [This message has been edited by Little_Marc (edited 12 November 2001).]

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Deathscythe Moderator
   
Posts: 1185 From: The Darkest Part of Hell (Shadow Land) Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 04 November 2001 22:47
maybe it does not so bad as that?!!------------------ You're Good But Im better!

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 05 November 2001 01:47
I couldnt find the page. I got cannot find page error thingy. Can anyone else connect to it? If so or if you saved the page, could someone post it here?------------------ «Lèts yÖÐèL!»

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l@st 1 WarLord
  
Posts: 236 From: Aust. WA Registered: Sep 2001 |
posted 05 November 2001 08:09
I would love to read that, but got the same thing. I'll post it up here if I get it. I'm going to keep trying as I want to see it.------------------ Trust Me = it takes a lifetime to find where U belong, and two lifetimes to find your Soulmate, but, I do not have a Lifetime or 2 of time on my hands....

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 06 November 2001 01:18
wow. there must be like 50 people here from perth.lol.weird i tell you.WEIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!------------------ «Lèts yÖÐèL!»

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SneakyRaven Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 299 From: middle of somewhere Registered: Jul 2001 |
posted 16 November 2001 21:19
i hate blizz with a passion... thats it i am selling my bnet acc =P------------------ Raven Zer0 "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups"

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whoamI Knight

Posts: 60 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 17 November 2001 14:22
Anyone noticed the D2Hack00015 or something in their D2 folder? The # at the end is the date cause I have one that was 00016 also. Inside it says stuff like "char name: item has skill that should not have skill." I did use an editor to. These files appeared after I updated to 1.09c. I unchecked the rape option they gave. YEAH RIGHT, no way in hell I would willfully let those guys get info off my pc.I think they are monitoring who uses h a c ks with that patch, not what type of systems players are using. A poll would be sufficient for that. Sneaky punks......

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 18 November 2001 00:44
I just hope its not gonna contribute even more to the amount of lag that the europe server seems to generate! I'm still waiting for them to update bnet with the more accurate message of "<playername> was killed by lag" it gets soooooo frustrating when you're in worldstone lvls & baal starts casting poison & lightning on you 'cos the game has decided you're standing still! ah well, maybe in a few more patches!!

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ZaN_Li WarLord
  
Posts: 170 From: Sweden Registered: Aug 2001 |
posted 19 November 2001 08:20
Sometime ago BLIZZARD where hacked by some guys using unix and the battle.net and blizzard.com where down for at least 12 hours and it was rumors on megagames.com that they had been hacked just because of that they scan your computer for hacks and cheated chars. The rumor was also something about that it scanned all of your comp and deleted all duplicate chars and so on.... I don´t now if it was true but.. i think it is they want to controll YOU, but at the same time it´s a good thing right? You don´t want to play with cheaters or do you?------------------ Diablo 2 - Unholy Wars will be avaible in 3-5 weeks. Diablo 2 - Unholy Wars

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 04 December 2001 13:31
quote: Originally posted by iowan: if they ban everybody from open that uses a editor , there will be nobody left on open , or almost no-one
It's really starting to get on my nerves now, i've never used a character editor, i keep getting D2HACK<date> files appearing in my diablo2 directory. Fair enuf, my single player games are modded so i can understand it picking up on certain changes, but when i'm using a clean patch_d2.mpq before logging into bnet? I'd always been proud of my lvl 70+ characters in bnet, cos some people still don't believe you can get that far without cheating/editing, and by being on bnet you're basically proving to them that you did it on your own. Now i'm just getting paranoid about what the game could be up to in the background while i'm munching my way thru worldstone 

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 09 December 2001 16:13
Blizzard was spying since v1.03... it just came public when they changed their ToS they used semi spyware in other games like starcraft. but i dont think they will do any thing if they will ban every one that cheats they will loose alot of costumers. they use these to detect the people who create editors etc to stop these people regular players shouldent worry and if its the spyware ppl are so scared about then get adaware (one of the best spyware removal progs ever and its free) and scan your system and you wont belive how much spyware you have on your pc (i know i was) also if you use msn messager or msie 6 you got a nice deal of spyware on your pcs too which cannot be detected (but it connects to the web check with a firewall) of their LoadQM (Quality monitor) file so final words are i dont think that the spyware on d2 is a bigdeal with 50% of all comercial software and games have some kind of semi tracking device on it.------------------ quote: there is a reason why your here. and there is a reason for whats now...

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FoxBat Moderator
   
Posts: 1618 From: PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 |
posted 09 December 2001 17:30
Actually Blizzard could really give a damn. That "D2Hack" info isn't sent to their servers, and they wouldn't care to read it anyway, they don't even have enough people on D2 anymore to worry about it. I'm suprised we're still getting cheat bug-fixes.

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xXSoul_SlayerXx Serf
Posts: 25 From: Prince George, British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2001 |
posted 14 December 2001 19:42
I dont really like people who cheat either. And I hate to break all of your hearts, but, mods and editing should be left to single player only. If you don't want your char to be hacked than play on closed bnet.------------------ If you thought Hell was scary, you haven't felt my wrath.

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 14 December 2001 20:55
you can get hacked on closed as well (not only tradehacks etc but since im not gonna talk about stuff like this on this forum)blizzard could stop cheating with easy but the fact is they dont care for real, they care (like any other software company) for money, now if they would make cheating on open imposible then alot of ppl (like 70% of the total) would be ****ed off which means they might not buy future games which again means less money, there would be so easy ways to stop it, like dropping that silly hp limit of 8388607 to like 10000, and many more but instead they made modding unique stats(the added reasonless limits) to protect legit players from 8mill pks. impossible ------------------ ------------------------- Your Soul is MINE! ------------------ Nefarius daemonicum dominantum inimicus est ------------------------- XyRAXv21.00B Comming SoOn ------------------------- :D:D:D

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