Chicken Little(aka, botter wanting to get a panic started): No one can check the content of warden updates anymore!!! They could patch a virus or steal CC information!!!

Me: I'd be happy to sign an agreement saying they could install a virus once a year if it stopped you. (As much as I hate doing it, reinstalling would be a small price to pay)

Chicken Little: Well, They could steal your CC information!!

Me: I GAVE them my CC information more than a year ago. They already have that.

Chicken Little: But you don't know what they are scanning!

Me: I know they are not scanning protected files on my computer, and other than that I don't CARE what they are scanning.

Chicken Little: Well, I meant that an employee could install a new version that takes your CC information and resorts it to them!

Me: An encrypted packet still needs an IP address to go to. If WoW suddenly started sending information to some "bellsouth.net" IP, tons of people would know right away.

Chicken Little: ...

Me: I'm in far more danger surfing the web, downloading a driver update, or even reading my mail. I'm 100 times more worried that the next waiter I give my card to at Red Lobster will write down my CC information than that some Blizzard employee will manage to get undetected access to my computer.

Me: No computer connected to the internet is secure. The internet itself isn't secure by it's very nature. Any OS (Windows, Mac, or Linux) has security problems. The best we can do is keep our patches current. Then we hope that when some new way of getting in is discovered, we are not one of the first ones hit.