MASSIVE SECURITY HAZARD in Spore!
Liz:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 15, 15:15:37
Quote from: edalbformat on 2008 July 15, 11:14:46
Game players are developping the same relation as the whore to the pimp. You destroy me but what am I without you?
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90% of the people in this planet, should use the brain outside the cranium. It is only decorative anyway!
Who needs Gali?
Quote from: edalbformat on 2008 July 28, 12:03:35
The companies that are more worried about losing income are exactly the ones that are alone in market and have power to threaten the concurrence with psycho terror... The practical result is that "if I'm judged as a criminal before I really become one, then we are on the same holed boat and we can join the devil if we cannot fight him.
Gali Jr. is full of truth and win.
Quote from: Drakron on 2008 July 21, 18:00:20
Quote from: DamianaSkye on 2008 July 20, 20:13:04
.... And some may argue that the Sony BMG DRM and Sony DADC SecuROM are not the same...
That is because THEY ARE NOT THE SAME DUMBASS.
They are SEPARATE DUMBASSES! So sayeth the Drakron.
IAmTheRad:
Oh, I never use my real name for anything besides only 2 email accounts. That's it. My computer name is completely different than my real name, and I doubt that anybody will even try to use my fake computer name for any malicious purposes.
I'm smarter than most of the sheeple who actually use their names for their logins. Usually I'm the only person who uses my computer, and if anyone else does, they use my username. So I'm in no threat of being attacked by a malicious person finding out my Spore login name then managing to get my ip address to hack my computer. I know it's possible, but I don't keep anything important of value on my computer anyways.
It's the stupid people that will be effected by this. These stupid people are also the ones who have 'default' as their wireless network SSID and also have no password or MAC address filtering.
Not to mention that I actually got into someone's wireless who did this and also could have made his network my own if I wanted.
J. M. Pescado:
Some people deliberately maintain unsecured wireless either because they want to provide public Internets, or because they want the plausible deniability of being able to blame some random person for anything they get accused of.
Hegelian:
FWIW, I have no intention of installing Spore on my computer. Nonetheless, I am curious about exactly which user name is being used, and possibly exposed to unauthorized viewers, in this instance (it is not entirely clear from this discussion).
Basically, my question is, if my user name is 'Hegelian' and I use the User Account function to change it to 'Justinian', the associated folder in the "Documents and Settings" directory is still 'Hegelian'. Is the Spore software using the user name I can change, or the name of the user folder, which is a system folder cannot be changed by any normal means?
It is possible to move all the data for an existing administrator-level account to a new one and then delete the original account, but it's a bit of a PITA.
Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III:
So, now that the splotchen are overtaking torrent sites and the world at large, did anyone ever figure out how to excise the data from Splotchcritter image files?
(For the record, my computer username is not my own name or even something remotely dangerous in the hands of others, but I like mah privacy.)
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