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Warden (also known as '''Warden Client''') is an Anti-cheating tool integrated in Blizzard Entertainment games such as '' Diablo II '', '' StarCraft '' (since patch 1.15), and most notably '' World Of Warcraft ''. While the game is running, Warden uses API function calls to collect data on open programs on the user's computer and sends it back to Blizzard servers as a Hash Values to be compared to those of known cheating programs.1 Privacy advocates consider the program to be Spyware .2 In November 2005 , it was proven that the XCP Rootkit secretly included with Sony Music CD s in North America for the purposes of Copy Prevention could be used to disguise cheat programs from Warden.3 PRIVACY CONCERNS The Electronic Frontier Foundation and other groups have labeled Warden as Spyware . Blizzard has said that Warden does not gather any personally identifiable information about players, only data about the account being used. It also states that the data collected is only used for finding evidence of malicious programs and cheating. The Governor is a and ToU , there have been no reports of anyone being banned for using the Governor. MDY INDUSTRIES V. BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT Warden has been brought to light by Blizzard's lawsuit with MDY Industries, LLC., the creator of the gameplay automation software Glider (more popularly known as WoWGlider). Blizzard has alleged in legal filings that Warden prevents players from creating unauthorized copies of the game client, which was previously an unknown function. Blizzard makes no mention of its known function of collecting data on open programs. Furthermore, it is actually referred to as "Warden," the first time Blizzard has confirmed its name. {Link without Title} REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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