Another quickie, just took about 15 minutes. Laying off the addresses and phone numbers because you can just look those up on pipl.com, 123people.com, or spend a couple minutes on Google to find them elsewhere.
Can you believe that Mike posted that message about real ID in the WoW forums while on his honeymoon in Hawaii? That's some dedication.
Check out the adventures of Michael Morhaime and Amy Chen and their wedding page. Lee must have recommended it to him, same website he used for his wedding.
Mike is a member of University Synagogue
And, well, I was just gonna list his immediate family members but here's his entire family tree. His sister Juliet actually prefers to go by Julia and is now a Goldberg rather than a Morhaime.
Just curious, can anyone smarter than me recognize if these are the two documents in which Mike sold his soul to Activision? Before he did that, he was already making over a million a year, I don't know why someone with that kind of money would sacrifice their baby for a little bit more.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/718877/0001047469-09-004381.txt
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/718877/0001047469-10-003954.txt
From Wikipedia:
Granada Hills High School (1985)
Triangle Fraternity at UCLA (BS in EE, 1990)
His new wife Amy Chen has an extremely common name, but I'm guessing she's the dentist who went to UC Berkley. Even if that's wrong, you can still narrow down her home address and phone number to 2, maybe 3 results.
I'm none too pleased with the "at this time" in his response to this shitstorm but I do think this site has served its purpose and should have the personal info pulled or hidden.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely keep it around for the next stage of RealID implementation though.
I will say that I do not want to see "friends of friends" in real ID.
ReplyDeletehttp://us.battle.net/realid/faq.html
"Similar to other social-networking platforms."
If I wanted to "socially network" I would have a social network account on a social networking site. As it is, I do not socially network on the internet and see no reason AT ALL to do so in games..
But being able to see friends in Starcraft 2, WoW, or Diablo III is really good.
Remove the friends of friends.
Though I find it creepy what is being done, it is all openly available on the internet for those who know how and where to find it. It is publicly available....
here is something else that is easy to do in games.
(Social engineering) is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or !!!!!!!!!divulging confidential information!!!!!, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques;
hey mob123, hows it going, whats the weather like where you are... oh cool. seems hot, is that Florida? oh... California you say....
I disagree with all the "this site has served its purpose" people. Having your real names public is not something they are going to give up on, especially since facebook is involved in this. Facebook has been making the case that your real name is not private information for a while now, because they "don't consider this personally identifiable information". So the point here has to be driven home to give us more leverage in this fight.
ReplyDeleteOne source from many:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704513104575256701215465596.html
Stop posting this crap. Take this page down.
ReplyDeletePost more of this 'crap'. Keep this page up.
ReplyDeleteMay I suggest the public faces of these corps then? Upper management of Blizz, Activision, and Facebook.
ReplyDeleteI mean, it's not like Zuckerberg has any shame. Cue link to the article where he's calling his college users dumb fucks for trusting him. Harass his ass.
I'm with the above poster. Take down all unnecessary parties such as wives and family members. You want to go after someone go after heads of the company who make the actual decisions. Wives, family members, the lackies of a company are terrible people to harass.
ReplyDeleteI think this is great. You just proved my point to the people that real ID is the absolute least of their concerns. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this
ReplyDeleteJust a note: I have mentioned your site on my blog for the Detroit News newspaper's blog:
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If you'd like me to remove it, please contact me.
I agree with what several other posters have mentioned.
ReplyDeleteMost of the Blizzard employees are innocent in this...don't make them suffer for upper management's poor judgement. By all means, find and post the C-level executives and senior VPs of Blizzard and Activision. They made the call and likely refused listening to objections by many employees (potentially even some that you've exposed here).
I agree that "most of the Blizzard employees are innocent in this." Yes, the majority of Blizz employees are innocent in this debacle.
ReplyDeleteI think the same could be said for the non-technically minded female WoW player who posts in the technical support forum asking for help with an error message. With the Real ID system, her simple query has the potential for data mining similar to what was seen here.
I think this blog was a powerful example of how the Real ID system could be exploited.
Wow. Way to prove you know nothing about the merger. Not surprising the owner of this website would be incompetent.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how anyone could say that your name is not personally identifiable information. My name, for instance, literally I am the only person in the world with my name. I know, people with common names say that sometimes, but I really am. How do I know this? Because my last name stems from a census worker's crazy misspelling of my family's previous name about five generations ago, followed by another misspelling of the original misspelling. Now, I DO have a large family, but there's less than 150 people with our last name in the world, maybe closer to 200 with spouses. And I'm the only one with my first name in the lot of them, ever. Not even dead people with my name. It's not an uncommon first name but my parents were a product of the sixties and went for something a little different intentionally. So someone explain to me how this is not "personally identifiable information"?
ReplyDeleteAnd no, I'm not going to tell you what it is, don't ask. People in my situation may be rare, but I doubt I'm the only person who plays WoW who is the only person with their name currently living. It DOES happen sometimes.
My name is Rusty Shackleford.
ReplyDeleteHIS NAME WAS ROBERT PAULSON.
ReplyDeleteWriting "can someone smarter than me tell me" isn't proof enough? Way to point out something the author already knows dude! That'll show 'em!
ReplyDeleteTarget the wives, kids and immediate family.
ReplyDeleteKeep the information flowing.
Blizzard don't like it when forced to taste their own medicine. If what you're doing is wrong then what Blizzard is considering doing is also wrong, but you have just beaten them to it.
ReplyDeleteAny argument against the purpose of this site can equally be levelled at Blizzard. Innocent staff caught in the backlash = innocent gamers caught in their new policy. Someone using information in the public domain about Blizzard employee to stalk them = someone using information posted in public on Blizzard forums to stalk them. I don't see how what you are doing is wrong
Quote: "Take down all unnecessary parties such as wives and family members."
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you are asking - no BEGGING - for the removal of family members from this blog proves just how flawed this system is.
Do you think the SA forum goons, 4chan kiddies, stalkers, general creepy-f**ks, and wack-a-doodles will be so "forgiving" and leave YOUR family alone?
Oh, I think you all know the answer to that question.
People like "Bobby" can afford security and drivers and such for his family.
Can we?
Oh that's right, we are just "plebes" - the little people
ReplyDeleteYou want to leave use naked against the scum of the internet eh?
So be it.
But you and your wives and your kids first.
For once you can each some of what you're dishing out.
You should really take this down. I'd try to talk to your common decency but you apparently don't have any. God forbid "moral high ground" or "taking the high road" have any meaning to you.
ReplyDeletePlease take down the page, especially the stuff on the families. They are getting harassed by the crazies and that's not fair. Blizzard moved very quickly to reverse itself after announcing the original policy. Give it a break. Everyone makes mistakes, even Blizzard. Please stop hurting the innocent just to make a point. Thank you in advance.
ReplyDeleteTake this page down so I can go back to having my head a foot up Blizzard's ass and act like this whole thing never happened. They've won back my trust by reversing a decision that should have never even been blurted out in the first place, and I want to keep lapping up whatever festering piles they feed to me next.
ReplyDeleteIf you think the higher ups at Blizzard are a bunch of douchebags for what they were proposing with battle.net, guess what? You just became a douchebag, too. Way to go! You win!
ReplyDeleteThat was his point. Good to see you got it.
ReplyDeleteKeep this up.
ReplyDeleteI'm a woman and I've been playing WoW for nearly 5 years now. I cannot believe (actually yes I can, corporate greed, and we all need to remember Blizzard is a BUSINESS not our BUDDY) that they would even THINK of implementing something so legally, ethically and just outright STUPID. They brag about being cutting edge professionals but they make some of the most idiotic decisions I've EVER seen in the gaming industry. People actually pay them to come up with this shit?
To the people asking him to tear this down:
Do you people even REALIZE that a simple add-on (available at pirate bay and other torrent sites) displays your REAL NAME to people not on your real ID friends list? Do you realize the only way to STOP this is to turn real ID off in your parental controls?
Blizzard hasn't even ACKNOWLEDGED THIS BUG. It is a major security leak and I can't fathom what those retards who created it on 4chan plan to do with those people's information they've collected. PROTECT YOURSELF and your family, turn REAL ID OFF IN YOUR PARENTAL CONTROLS!
Signed,
A Concerned (But Enlightened) WoW Player.
Always remember children that Blizzard is a COMPANY and their interests are not PROTECTING YOU, it is MAKING MONEY and the BOTTOM LINE.
July 6th, the day that lives in infamy.
More upper management guys!
ReplyDeleteEspecially the Activision side, they need to get out of the game industry.
"To the people asking him to tear this down:
ReplyDeleteDo you people even REALIZE that a simple add-on (available at pirate bay and other torrent sites) displays your REAL NAME to people not on your real ID friends list? Do you realize the only way to STOP this is to turn real ID off in your parental controls?"
This isn't true, actually. There are a lot of doctored screenshots designed to get a rise out of people, but those addons don't actually do what they claim to.
for the first time in history OP is NOT a faqqet
ReplyDeleteOP is a fucking god
To anyone who thinks this should be taken down.
ReplyDeleteThink about why... got it? THAT'S THE POINT.
The home address of Warren Buffet, until recently the richest person in the world, can be found on the first page of Google. Perhaps, with this issue, there are a number of people suffering from unwarranted self-importance.
ReplyDeleteRegards to everyone who has to put up with interweb trolls.
So where is you name and address? If you gonna put someone else out there why not yourself?
ReplyDeleteIt's so hilarious to see people arguing against this site anonymously. Isn't that incredibly ironic? "You shouldn't show people what happens when you open up your name to the world via the internet. -Anonymous"
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've read every post on this blog. Lots of RealID fanboys. Current count is absolutely ZERO posted their real name and email address with their post.
ReplyDeleteHow many of these stupid fucks do you suppose had posts on the wow forum about how this was all blown out of proportion, no danger, blahblahblah...
I have a feeling Blizz's opt-in to RealID plan is going to be a gigantic flop because even these people, the dumbest of the dumb, have at least learned this one lesson.
Is this site dead?
ReplyDeletethanks
ReplyDeleteWell done - These names should stay up. Too many of these decisions are made by the faceless taking home 15 million a year (Bobby).
ReplyDeleteThey might start to show a little more empathy with women and those of us who have no idea "who" is playing the game with us.
I choose who I invite into my life, not some corporation.
Thanks for this posting...Good one
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