Beware of BioWare!

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Originally Posted by AstralWanderer

any software you run and allow Internet access for can report on what files you have present, your system configuration or system activity (last webpages visited, last commands typed, etc) and such data could be encrypted in transit to prevent users from running packet sniffers to see what was happening.

a skilled person would be able to figure out what was sent.. if it was personal information like the persons name, cc details, whatever do you not think that this information about 'program xyz reports your name, pc information, dogs name, cats name, grannys age.. blah blah blah to the company when you register' would be on the internet pretty damned quickly?

when you buy something in the shop with a credit card, does that shop also not have your name, credit card number (and probably access to your address)? there is nothing different...

if a game did record personal information and sent it when you registered / logged onto their server it would be pretty damned stupid... and then you would also be pretty damned stupid for puting your real name and other details on the pc...

the protection companies have better things to do, and while it might be a nice argument to stop people using the protection there is no foundation in it..

as for the data being encrypted 'in transit', it has to be plain text at one point in time for it to be stored and then encrypted, a skilled reverse engineer could find it by simply backtracing buffers when the data is actually sent out...

paranoia is pretty common on the internet, however paranoia and bullshit seem to prevail on forums when the word 'online activation' is mentioned...