MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occured. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
World of Warcraft: Secret watermark in screenshots
Hello There, Guest!  LoginRegister

Post Reply 
 
Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
World of Warcraft: Secret watermark in screenshots
Author Message
CtrlAltDestroy Offline
Junior Member
**

Posts: 13
Joined: Aug 2012
Reputation: 0
Thanks: 0
Given 2 thank(s) in 1 post(s)
Post: #1
World of Warcraft: Secret watermark in screenshots
I don't play WoW, but this one has just been discovered and it is quite fascinating.

In World of Warcraft, most every screenshot you take contains a secret watermark that contains data for your account ID, the time the screenshot was taken, and the IP and data of the server you're playing on. It is speculated that this was mainly used to identify and punish internal leaking.

Source: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of...shots.html

This was also confirmed by disassembling the executable; there is indeed a subroutine which applies a watermark onto your screenshots.
09-12-2012 04:58 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 


Messages In This Thread
World of Warcraft: Secret watermark in screenshots - CtrlAltDestroy - 09-12-2012 04:58 AM

Forum Jump:


User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)