Privacy; Blizzard; and being the only one in costume…

Lucious the Luscious; Sabrina the Sorceress; Paul Philbaum, Crombie, PA, acct.; Rena Tsolitias, adm. asst to Mr. Philbaum; Larry Goldberg, CPA; Crombie, PA. (All names totally fictional, for the purposes of illustration)   Maybe your teammates figure out that you’re an accountant, too.  After all, if your friends all go by their real name and you’re [...]

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Crossing the Line

Tracking your virtual character to track YOU! Pixels and Policy has a great article about using a guy’s WOW profile to arrest him in real life. Extraordinary piece of reporting about interaction between police and WOW support system. This is a link to a somewhat related story where Blizzard (WOW-maker) was sued for the way [...]

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