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If I remember right, there was a post on HN here a while ago about how there's a dot pattern embedded in all WoW screenshots, so they can identify who the user
by tibbon 14y ago
If I remember right, there was a post on HN here a while ago about how there's a dot pattern embedded in all WoW screenshots, so they can identify who the user is even if they remove the character name from the screen.
If they have the account information on this, I have to wonder if they could actually sue someone (instead of just banning them) for using this hack?
- ben0x539 14y agoThose screenshots are probably the victims', anyway. While Blizzard probably does have enough logging to track this down on their end, it's fairly easy to get a trial account with bogus account information, so it would be back to grabbing their IP addresses and pleading with some ISP to reveal their real identity.
- yozmsn 14y agoAs it turns out there are a couple of guys publishing videos youtube of their, POV as the attacker/killer, so if the dot-pattern thing isn't a hoax then those guys are screwed... but from what I read it sounds like it's a bunch of guys who are annoyed that the hack exists and so they're abusing it until Blizzard fixes it.
- aesopiate 14y agoThe dot pattern only exists in in-game screenshots, and only if they're set to 9/10 quality or lower. They won't exist in a frapsesque video.
- adrianpike 14y agoWow, I missed that first time around. Neat. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505584 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505584
- Havoc 14y agoYes - easily circumvented though with a few tweaks to the config.
- VMG 14y agoMaybe not with the dot-pattern but a more robust fingerprint.