Quote Originally Posted by 'Steph',index.php?page=Thread&postID=141846#post14 1846
Who wrote this or that extension that got people banned is pretty immaterial to me. Lax wrote IS making it a platform for anything else people wanted to do. There is an inherent risk to having an open platform, people do things with them and it fires back on the platforms reputation. Considering that Lax wrote ISXwarden and helped MDY with their hiding from warden, I think it is safe to assume that Lax does not mind at all if his products are used against the rules of the respective game. ISXwarden's purpose is to hide rule violations from detection. Lax posted in various threads here, adamantly proclaiming that IS is clean and no higher risk than another software. What he does not mention and dutifully ignores is that he designed IS as cheating tool rather than as multiboxing tool and that the software has many capabilities that are plainly not needed for boxing.

Yes, a tool is a tool. The user is responsible for what he does with it. Just like the G15. Depending on how you use it, it is against Blizzards rules or not.
The difference is that Keyclone can by design not be used to break Blizzards rules, while IS was designed to break rules.
So... you are clairvoyant and you know that Lax wrote IS as a tool to cheat. Why would Lax mention that he designed IS as a cheating tool when that is bullshit? Lax did not write a solution to cheat using IS. Other devs wrote those applications and some of them are making a lot of money as a result. If Lax was so very interested in cheating, don't you think he would be making some of that cash? ISXWarden has been discontinued for a long time. There is also a very good argument that by itself, ISXWarden was beguine. ISXWarden addressed a privacy issue regarding Blizzard's Warden process as it violated our personal rights. To assume you know what or why Lax wrote IS or anything else is wrong.

-j

EDIT: It was the EFF that declared Warden as spyware. Here is one of dozens of news articles on the subject. This one is by BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4385050.stm