When Blizzard Shipped Malware
Almost thirty years ago, Blizzard took a step too far.
Sources
- FidoNet post on Google Groups:
https://groups.google.com/g/fido7.su.game.sol/c/c9crJatAb8E/m/eweAiON0qkwJ - Blizzard's Blunder?
PC Gamer (US), Volume 5 Issue 7 (July 1998), page 28 - StarCraft lawsuit: Privacy and piracy
CNN Interactive, May 4, 1998
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208115624/http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9805/04/privacy_piracy/index.html - Blizzard Hit with Privacy Suit
GameSpot, date unknown (CMS displays incorrect date)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-hit-with-privacy-suit/1100-2463619/ - Starcraft Suit is History, Concerns Persist
GameSpot, date unknown (CMS displays incorrect date)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/starcraft-suit-is-history-concerns-persist/1100-2464364/ - Advanced Penetration Testing by Wil Allsopp:
https://archive.org/details/advancedpenetrationtesting_202310
Footage
- Starcraft footage by JadedZerg @ World of Longplays
https://longplays.org/infusions/longplays/longplays.php?cat_id=2&longplay_id=3955 - Introducing Windows 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9643c2P6k - Game Stores of the late 90's Babbages, Game Crazy, and Game Trader (shot 1998-1999) by ++Good Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL0Sf6_e2yI - Early AOL Commercial (1995) uploaded by mycommercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npzZu83AfU - Diablo 4 footage by RavonixXx - No copyright gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DB7fhi4Te0
Music
- Hazy Moon
by Falcom Sound Team JDK
from the Tokyo Xanadu eX+ soundtrack
Copyright © Nihon Falcom Corporation
used under the Falcom Music Free Declaration: https://www.falcom.co.jp/music-use
