Saturday, September 29, 2012

World of Warcraft may secretly include your account name and server IP in screenshots

World of Warcraft may secretly include your account name and server IP in screenshots

Repeating patterns embedded in screenshots taken with WoW's game client application can be decrypted to identify you, a report on Slashdot suggests. Posters on the OwnedCore forum claim that the watermark can be decoded to reveal user IDs, the time the screenshot was captured and the IP address of the server. "A few days ago I noticed some weird artifacts covering the screenshots I captured using the WoW game client application," says Slashdot poster kgkoutzis. "I sharpened the images and found a repeating pattern secretly embedded inside.

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