RealID to come to the Official Blizzard Forums

[Souca]

This comment is just so fun:

http://wowriot.gameriot.com/permalink/comment/610830

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[Souca]

And as if things couldn't get worse...

http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/securi...e-names-witho/

Now addons can be used to get your real info...

Granted, it's only YOUR info, but do you really want to have to check to see if your addons are safe and don't have a backdoor?

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[MiRai]

Now apparently the Gameriot page actually has an incorrect address. People are claiming that all blue posters are from Irvine, CA which that address shows Lakeport, CA. It could be an old address where he used to live or his family's address, I have no idea.

This shows Irvine, CA addresses:
http://www.pipl.com/search/?FirstNam...=2&Interface=1

As well as the rest of the internet articles on it:
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/blizza...-id-situation/
http://www.binya.org/etain/?p=1106
http://www.coffeedrunk.com/2010/07/0...hiok-harassed/
http://solean.blog.de/2010/07/07/the...ipple-8927339/

On July 7th at 3AM CST this thread is currently 870 pages long. Will Blizzard realize something is wrong?

Might just ask for this to be merged with the other thread.

EDIT: Merged

[Souca]

The meme is already spreading:

Hitler Hears About Real-ID

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[Hivetyrant]

Now apparently the Gameriot page actually has an incorrect address. People are claiming that all blue posters are from Irvine, CA which that address shows Lakeport, CA. It could be an old address where he used to live or his family's address, I have no idea.

This shows Irvine, CA addresses:
http://www.pipl.com/search/?FirstNam...=2&Interface=1

As well as the rest of the internet articles on it:
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/blizza...-id-situation/
http://www.binya.org/etain/?p=1106
http://www.coffeedrunk.com/2010/07/0...hiok-harassed/
http://solean.blog.de/2010/07/07/the...ipple-8927339/

On July 7th at 3AM CST this thread is currently 870 pages long. Will Blizzard realize something is wrong?

Might just ask for this to be merged with the other thread.

EDIT: Merged

Get as angry as you want about the RealID crap, but leave the employee's alone, they didn't make the decision, and are doing their best to stay neutral in this fiasco.

I hope all of you that find this funny get to have your families details and photo's put on the internet so nerds can prank call and harass them for months when they had nothing to do with it.

Not sure why this is making me rage, I just don't think it's fair that non-decision makers, just simple employees get picked on.

Unless you won the lottery, I assume most of you have jobs (otherwise you couldn't afford to multibox) so just imagine for a second that your employer made a bad PR decision and some disgruntled customer descides to find out where one of their employee's lives, smashes up your car, and runs.

Yep, you get to deal with the crap and there is little chance you can do anything about it.

Anyways, I know the people that find this funny won't listen to what I said or understand anyways, but I think it's sad.

This is the kind of internet justice that should stay reserved for the people it started with, pedo's, thieves and animal bashers.

[Khatovar]

Khatovar, have I told you I love your sig? Shame your married, or we could have had little Annalists together.

- Souca -

Haha, my husband is already trying to get me to spawn our own Company. I keep a special place in my heart for sticking my daughter with the name Sylith Dorotea.


This whole thing is getting ugly fast. I really cannot fathom how they thought this would be a good idea or that it would go over well. I have no problems staying off the forums, I get my info from MMOChampion and here, but this whole thing is just begging to be a nightmare.

I can't really think of a reason to WANT RealID anyway. Ease of chatting? I run Trillian, people who want to talk to me can use that.


Edit - Hivey, that's the POINT. That Blizz employee volunteered his name to prove Blizzard's point that this is a great thing. It took all of what, 4 minutes for people to start coming back with information on him outside of WoW life? And they ban people for trying to make the point that giving out your personal information is a frigging stupid bloody DANGEROUS idea. Not my problem if Mr. Whipple is naive enough to fall for the company line instead of being security minded.

[Iceorbz]

Yeah just so people know, with a Real name, and an address... we can pull up retarded amounts of information on you.

Pictures, Driver licenses, vehicle information, tax returns, property taxes, child births, marriages, work information ect ect.
This is not tinfoil hat bullshit, I do this quite regularly when looking for people while serving court documents. All this information is out there -- and it only takes a name and real address to find it out.
Please, voice your opinion against it.

[MiRai]

Not sure why this is making me rage, I just don't think it's fair that non-decision makers, just simple employees get picked on.

No idea why it's making you rage either. I didn't do the searches. These are links which are already quoted from the thread(s) I linked.

Get as angry as you want about the RealID crap, but leave the employee's alone, they didn't make the decision, and are doing their best to stay neutral in this fiasco.

I hope all of you that find this funny get to have your families details and photo's put on the internet so nerds can prank call and harass them for months when they had nothing to do with it.

Did my post suggest I was angry? I'm not angry, I'm just along for the ride. I don't even post on the Blizzard forums; and for the rare occasion that I do post, I've already made a new BNet account with a fake name anyway. When G4 has their series "Behind the MMO" in 15 years and they air the episode about the downfall of Blizzard Entertainment, I can say I was there for all of it.

[drevil]

that's a first degree data security fail.

battlenet login name = account name = billing name = realid = real name = ingame name = forum name

(all linked together)

[OzPhoenix]

Blizzard surely can't be serious about this? Can they?

I like WoW - like it enough to spend the time and money to multibox it. I've played it since Beta, but I'll drop it in a heartbeat if I feel there's any chance of other players, forum posters or the like getting hold of my real (and relatively unique) name.

As a hirer of employees myself, I've for a while now included google and facebook searches on prospective employees, and I'm personally aware of at least one person dismissed from their job for what they wrote on their Facebook page (they'd been claiming to be sick, but were in fact off visiting family in Canada).

I have my own reasons for maintaining my anonymity on the Internet, Blizzard doesn't need to know them or care about them, just respect them. There isn't a service/convenience/product/game or item that would ever induce me to willingly give up that anonymity.