Excitement is in the air in  the WoW community with the recent
release to the Real I.D system. Bringing in game chatting to a whole
new level, almost everyone is happily adding friends galore. However,
there may be a darker side to this seemingly benign feature designed to
foster friendship in WoW; Real I.D requires users to divulge
information that could put user’s security at risk.

Security has always
been tantamount at Blizzard. Proof of this lies in
the frequent reminders to not give out your account information, and
the introduction of the Authenticator, both of which seem to lead to
more security for players. So it came as quite a surprise when reading
more about the Real I.D system that in order to utilize the function
players would need to either give out the e-mail address that
corresponds to their account, or obtain the e-mail addresses of their
friends.

Find out more in: href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/editorials/Real_ID"
target="_blank">WoW: Real Names in a Fake
World.