Hmm? I think I don't really get your point Otlecs! Keyclone authenticates with Keyclone's server at least once on startup. I never had it fail and understand that his server is down less than Blizzards. From what Aarelan said, GCP does phone home, but has fault tolerance built-in, so that you would be able to play even if GCP's authentication server can not be reached. So the amount of servers that need to be up so we can play doesn't go up.

I guess the only other phone home concern is account theft. An executeable that is permitted to phone home would be of course ideal for that, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that any 'cracked' boxing software version does just that compliments of the helpful cracker. Genuine ftw. As far as trying a software directly from the manufactuer, it is a question of trust towards the manufacturer. Anyone connected to the account theft/gold farming business like a certain cretin who's banned here at DB.com is clearly disqualified in my book.

To me, GCP looks both legit and interesting. As I said above, I'd be happy to try it.