Hazards of Leopard Firewall

A quick heads up for anyone who wants to run World of Warcraft on Leopard.

If you activate the firewall and specify the wow.app it WILL ALTER THE APPLICATION.

normally this isn't a problem, the additions are miniscule and beneficial, except Blizzard does a checksum on the application before logging into the servers.

A checksum is where they run the application through an equation and get a certain number, the checksum. This way they know that the program has not been altered. Since Leopard does alter the application, you could end up without the ability to actually run the game.

There's no malice towards either Apple, Blizzard because of this event. But man it sucks I can't access my Time Machine backup at work. If it weren't Apple's "fault" I'd gladly say this is the first time that Time Machine has made itself useful.