I'm not understanding how he's a Blizzard employee for understanding that "Warden" is outlined in the End-User Lisence Agreement. All of my friends know that Warden is running, and yet, they still play the game. They don't hack WoW, they don't search for exploits, and when I explained that's what Blizzard wanted, they stopped worrying about it. Period. Because Blizzard has had a great track record. Where's your crusade against Cookies? Or Steam? What happens when Windows Live hits? All of those things that you're worried "might" happen (one day), will happen anyway, and they have nothing to do with Warden.

...meanwhile, I know that the Sony/BMG/Epic rootkit is on my PC, and if I weren't so strict about my use of this PC, it could be infected with any number of trojans, doing whatever they wanted to my data, currently. Of course, I won't know anything about the infection at all, until my PC slows to a crawl, stops working, somebody steals all of my personal information that I have stored on this PC (aka: almost nil) or I lose all of my work. Why won't I know? Because unless I search for it by hand, it's totally hidden.

Now the question is, did developers or did hackers first discover the Sony rootkit, that's basically installed on every PC that has ever been used to listen to music. My guess is that it was the bad guys. And you think Sony's off the hook? "Duhr, well, this new trojan/phisher says that it's a part of the latest version of our copy protection. You have to insert three credit card numbers and your SIN number before you can play a song. So let's tuck that away where end-users won't find it for another five years."

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