MASSIVE SECURITY HAZARD in Spore!
Lorelei:
Quote from: jolrei on 2008 June 19, 18:22:25
Quote from: Lord Vader on 2008 June 19, 18:06:35
Hmm good thing I'm not buying the game. Looks like a stupid concept to me anyway. I don't know why there's so much hype for it.
* jolrei gets popcorn and settles in to watch the fur fly.
You know that quite a number of MATY folks appear to be interested in this game, do you? And you've just called their new interest stupid. I think you may become quite "popular", in a manner of speaking.
Only with butthurt F-types who think someone expressing disagreement about a subject is equivalent to them saying "I hate you and you are stupid."
Ts could not care less about some random forumdweller's negative opinion if they have decided that they are interested in something.
Also? I DO NOT WANT Spore, either.
lordrichter:
This does not make sense. Why store the user name? What good does that do? It is hardly unique across all installations, even if someone is silly enough to use a real name. So, it can't be for tracking outside of the PC... at least, not by itself. The only purpose would be to establish ownership of creatures built by different players on the same PC, each with a different ID. Is there something about Spore where anyone would care?
I worry that time will tell us that they store more than the user name... either something obvious like the IP address or something less obvious like a system identifying fingerprint.
Tchan:
Mine's called "Administrator". I don't think you can tell anything about me from it. :) Though I'm quite grateful that it wouldn't let me rename it now. Very grateful.
MaryH:
Quote from: Kraken on 2008 June 19, 16:45:42
First secuROM and now this! Thanks to the most awesome for finding this out and giving the alert.
Has anyone informed the sheep on the Sims/Spore website yet?
Nobody on the Sims site will believe this, because it comes from the blazing hell that is "pirate city". They will believe exactly what EA wants them to believe, and will buy the demo, the game and anything else that EA puts out with SecuRom on it because EA says it's all good.
You don't want to open the can of worms-because you'll get banned or banished to the tech area of the BBS. EA has been doing that for a while now-if they see any truth, they will hide it, or delete it.
Faizah:
As I am getting a new PC, what is my safest option here? Fake name, second non-admin account for Spore (with fake name), just not share, or what? I'm afraid simply not installing it isn't an option. I want to make creatures! I'll be honest, that's what got me into the Geneforge series of games, which are awesome, but Spore is probably closer to what I was looking for. Though I am quite fond of the RPG nature and storylines of the Geneforge games as well, which I highly doubt Spore can match. (Even the third game, with all that stupid annoying island hopping. If I never see another dock again, it'll be too soon!)
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I think I have to make a Fyora now, once I've got my new PC set up. (They said 2-3 days, and it's day 3...)
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