Please Note
Thank you for visiting Murloc Parliament. This blog is inactive since the authors have stopped playing WoW.
However, the blog will continue to be hosted for a while because, while outdated, some information may be useful. The site will be taken down once Mists of Pandaria is released, because at that point all information here will be obsolete.
Safety Archive
Miscellaneous Points on a Saturday
Posted on October 2, 2010 | 2 CommentsBunch of junk that didn’t really fit anywhere… and… go! Real ID Holy crappo, this is a good thing. Now you can opt-out of friend-of-friend and facebook and still use...
We won, but I hope we learned something too.
Posted on July 9, 2010 | 1 CommentDid the prospect of Real ID on forums scare the shit out of you? Yeah it scared the shit out of me too. And man, I’m relieved that it’s gonna...
Altered Deals: Yet another RealID Essay
Posted on July 7, 2010 | 3 CommentsI’ve stayed mostly quiet on the whole RealID business since Zel knows more about general privacy issues than I do. But if you’ll indulge me gentle reader on this topic,...
Young Lady, you will not use that Newfangled “Real Eye Dee”
Posted on July 7, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn order to address the addon security flaw that would allow addons to datamine my real name via Real ID, though I have no Real ID friends, I switched on...
Privacy Creep: Real ID on the Forums.
Posted on July 6, 2010 | 17 CommentsOK, what the hell? I just threw up in my mouth a little. Apparently, the post-cataclysm forums will be “Real-ID only.” That’s right, if you wanna post, you’d better be...A quick refresher on Real ID: It’s BAD
Posted on June 22, 2010 | 2 CommentsReal ID is being implemented exactly as it was proposed months ago, with the same security concerns.Real ID: Dear Readers, Please Don’t.
Posted on May 5, 2010 | 20 CommentsI'm sure you've seen, or will see, the Real ID FAQ - here it is on wow.com. I'm sorry to say that, beyond the practical problems of being unable to hide on an alt or the risk of hacking, this feature is dangerous in a very real-life way.