Ubisoft Exposes Watch Dogs Fans' Email Addresses

[Hjalmar Fryklund]

Just human error. Hang on, I've never heard of this game, looks interesting.

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Or is it....

The plot is indeed thickening...

On-topic: Is anybody foreseeing any significant consequences to this? I ain't, but I am also not very versed in these sort of things.

 

[Biodeamon]

I'm guessing nobody in the audience knew what irony was?

 

[Shocksplicer]

and here we have, my friends, the definition of irony.

That's not ironic. If the site was hacked and the emails given out, that would be irony. Accidentally sending them out, isn't.

OT: Does it really matter? I don't think I could care any less if my email address was in that lot. What's going to happen? You have to spend two seconds blocking someone if they spam you? Iunno. I've never been one to get into this whole cyber privacy thing.

[email protected] < My email address. *shrug*

It is ironic. One of the major themes of the game is exposing secrets, and now fans have had their email addresses exposed.

 

[Antari]

I'll never understand why To and CC are the default, and not BCC.

Is there a reason why email programs and services cannot make BCC the default for sending to multiple recipients?

Mainly because BCC hasn't actually been around that long compared to emailing itself. Its a fairly new option, thought of as secondary or optional. There's no real reason why they couldn't make it the default or atleast stick in an option to make it default. They likely have just never bothered to make the change because they haven't encountered a reason to yet.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

and here we have, my friends, the definition of irony.

That's not ironic. If the site was hacked and the emails given out, that would be irony. Accidentally sending them out, isn't.

OT: Does it really matter? I don't think I could care any less if my email address was in that lot. What's going to happen? You have to spend two seconds blocking someone if they spam you? Iunno. I've never been one to get into this whole cyber privacy thing.

[email protected] < My email address. *shrug*

It is ironic. One of the major themes of the game is exposing secrets, and now fans have had their email addresses exposed.

No, it's not. It would be ironic if the game were about trying to protect people's personal data. What you're confusing it with is 'poetic justice', which can sometimes but not always be ironic in nature.

 

[Shocksplicer]

and here we have, my friends, the definition of irony.

That's not ironic. If the site was hacked and the emails given out, that would be irony. Accidentally sending them out, isn't.

OT: Does it really matter? I don't think I could care any less if my email address was in that lot. What's going to happen? You have to spend two seconds blocking someone if they spam you? Iunno. I've never been one to get into this whole cyber privacy thing.

[email protected] < My email address. *shrug*

It is ironic. One of the major themes of the game is exposing secrets, and now fans have had their email addresses exposed.

No, it's not. It would be ironic if the game were about trying to protect people's personal data. What you're confusing it with is 'poetic justice', which can sometimes but not always be ironic in nature.

No, I'm not confusing it with anything. The game is about exposing secrets, fans of the game have had their secrets exposed. It is ironic.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

It is ironic. One of the major themes of the game is exposing secrets, and now fans have had their email addresses exposed.

No, it's not. It would be ironic if the game were about trying to protect people's personal data. What you're confusing it with is 'poetic justice', which can sometimes but not always be ironic in nature.

No, I'm not confusing it with anything. The game is about exposing secrets, fans of the game have had their secrets exposed. It is ironic.

If you play the game and the game leaks your info to the world that would be situational irony, but what's happened to Ubisoft isn't really irony. We're probably just getting wires crossed, my apologies.

 

[Shocksplicer]

It is ironic. One of the major themes of the game is exposing secrets, and now fans have had their email addresses exposed.

No, it's not. It would be ironic if the game were about trying to protect people's personal data. What you're confusing it with is 'poetic justice', which can sometimes but not always be ironic in nature.

No, I'm not confusing it with anything. The game is about exposing secrets, fans of the game have had their secrets exposed. It is ironic.

If you play the game and the game leaks your info to the world that would be situational irony, but what's happened to Ubisoft isn't really irony. We're probably just getting wires crossed, my apologies.

Agree to disagree?

 

[Sushewakka]

and here we have, my friends, the definition of irony.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

"And your two million loser friends all have my address now 'cause you never figured out the way to BCC..." - Weird Al

 

[n00beffect]

Well, boo-hoo. Big deal. Besides, don't these people know, they should always use alternative emails for that kind of stuff (as opposed to their regular ones)?

 

[Durgiun]

Oh Ubisoft, why must you keep giving me reasons to pirate from big name companies like you and EA?