Quote Originally Posted by Wilbur
There was nothing that was stopping them. The diffrence between now and then, was that prior to 2.3 this was being "policed" by the Botting communities. It is now more difficult as Blizzard can pretty much introduce a new scan/malicious code more "unnoticably" this is due to everyones hashed scans looking diffrent. Where-as before everyone's looked the same, despite their being many diffrent scans. We knew before that Warden worked in-process, although now it makes it a lot more difficult to know what its actually doing.
Having the botting communities 'police' the game they are trying to cheat in is like asking burglars to make sure everyone locks their doors.

As someone has said before this is more about the increased difficulty botters now have to make a) their software work and b)sure they don't get caught. Than it is about Blizzard (a well known big business, who can't just dissappear if their system is used for illegal activities) using encryption to send data back to their servers.

In fact if you for a moment ignore the reason Warden exists you could say that they are being good to their customers by encrypting their details before sending them over an in effect open data stream.

If any other group of WoW fans with a few exceptions (tin foil hat brigade) had found this out there wouldn't have been this outcry, Warden is a piece of software that is intended to make the game a leveller playing field for those of us who don't run 'illegal' third party apps.

Perhaps it sets a precedent, perhaps not. I don't think people are going to leave the game in droves and that would be the only way that Blizzard could be encouraged to remove this version of Warden.