I see SE's official and very carefully worded response. So far we can't prove or disprove what they are saying. What we can verify that SE did start scanning (emphasis for certain alla mods who didnt pick up the difference) processes this updates. I've seen screenshots of people who have blocked pol.exe which made me run out and get Process Guard myself. I have been able to verify that POL.exe DOES scan your other process'.
As I said before we can't verify SE's claim on whether or not they transmit the information they are retreiving from our systems as we can't use a packet sniffer without violating the TOS. I'll say this though, I wouldn't trust a company's word on the matter if they mysteriously started scanning my machine without telling me first.
The word I mentioned in the title is of course, cowardice. SE is too afraid of it's users and chalenges to confront it's chalenges within the letter of the law. They are afraid of a backlash that would arise from being found out. They are afraid of the free speech that would allow it's users to find out. Evidently the admins for FFXI here are just tools for SE to silence those who have figured out to a small degree of what got added.
Your court, Pikko.
Edit: I'm not posting on the matter anymore, I'm not going to just give you more posts you can gang rate for fun. If you really feel your personal rights are not worth protecting, then you're worthless. Remember that.
Edited, Mar 10th 2007 12:52am by Ranzera