Aha. That was it! Thanks.
Indeed. Are Blizzard really that naive to think that people aren't going to do things like that? Oh noes! Can't post it their forums, but that's not going to stop them posting elsewhere, or making a nuisance of themselves to the person concerned.
I wonder what the chances of someone in America launching some sort of class action in connection to this?

Best bit is they might be about to run into legislation that stops them doing this. The Data protection act for one requires that personal information be kept secret unless the other person agrees at the time it was submited. Not upon request 4 years later they can't suddenly change the rules to require it they will need to redo all accounts in the UK at least.

all interviews *now* have to be cleared through the pentagon due to Rolling Stones thing people might have heard about :p
But... I know a lot of people who play WoW over here dunno how many of them post.

Perhaps I live under a rock, but I have no idea what happened there. Got any links?
Also, rumor has it this requirement is similar to one required by Korean law where sites of over X number of users must require real names be used. Of course, that realistically can only be applied to those in Korea, if such rumor is true.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236?RS_show_page=0
:) it is why Petraeus has been appointed to take the lead in Afghanistan,

Posts from before this is implemented won't have the real name attached, so I don't think it will run afoul of that law. They'll probably have another ToS that you have to click through on the new forums.
More info!
A possible theory is that a Korean Law may be responsible for Blizzard's decisions.
http://kotaku.com/5582040/is-korean-law-behind-blizzards-real-name-policy
Or it could just be the agreement Blizzard signed with Facebook.

You know, if you eat a blizzard too fast, it may freeze you.
ANYTHING, 'CAUSE IT'S TEH WOW, MAN!!!

Online fake identity generators FTW.

Wow, some disgruntled players (or just anon legion) has set up a blog (I don't think I can link that...) specifically to dig a few Blizzard's employees' personal (and their families') information. O_o

Good for them. While I hope that nobody does anything with the info, if the company is okay with making their customers vulnerable, then they should have to deal with it too. At the very least, their complaints might increase the chances of this idiocy being put down.

So just because upper management thought something was a good idea, every janitor at the company should suffer?

That's hilarious.

Do you have the link to that? :)

Who is more important, the customers or the janitor? Neither. They should both be treated with respect; respect for personal privacy that the company and fools posting personal info are denying them.