6th July 2010, 9:21 PM
It's still a worthwhile concern. Saying "someone with enough dedication and resources can do whatever they want so I won't even bother caring" is kinda like saying "if they had enough resources anyone can break into my house so I won't bother locking the door". There's no dichotomy here, there's plenty of breathing room in the middle between paranoid extreme identity fear and freely typing which night club you'll be going to tomorrow.
It's "opt-in" in the sense that people are free to NOT post on their forum, but it still seems like a mistake. Especially in light of certain laws congress and the FCC want to pass putting guarantees on internet privacy so companies can't give out this information. Blizzard is opening up a risk they don't need to.
It's "opt-in" in the sense that people are free to NOT post on their forum, but it still seems like a mistake. Especially in light of certain laws congress and the FCC want to pass putting guarantees on internet privacy so companies can't give out this information. Blizzard is opening up a risk they don't need to.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)