“Sometimes it feels like, somebody’s watching me.”
For WoW fans, especially those who like to tinker, you’re being watched.
From the Reg UK:
According to Warden-watching modders, the latest version is now encrypted, adding a major barrier for tinfoil hats who track what information the application sends home to Blizzard.
The Warden’s function as an anti-hacking sentry was already cause for concern for some privacy advocates. From the moment players log into the game, The Warden checks open window names, process names, memory modifications, DDL names and other pieces of data in the background. The goal is to determine if the user has a specific hack or program loaded and sends back a “yes” or “no” answer to Blizzard.
At any given time, there is one version of The Warden active in a set of WoW servers. But Blizzard fights would-be countermeasures against The Warden by switching between hundreds of different copies of The Warden with the same functionality, but containing slight modifications in the code.
So, what we have here is potential for Blizzard to gain full access to a users system. Remember, I said potential.
Tags: WoW, Word of Warcraft, The Warden, Warden Encrypted
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