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frtoasterfrtoaster Member Posts: 3,352 Arc User
Tribble ticket 4,754,564 (submitted on 09/12/2018)

After the Tribble patch on September 5, 2018, I discovered that my MAC address is stored twice in gameprefs.pref: once as SystemSpecs.macAddrString and again as SystemSpecs.macAddr. Both of these entries contain exactly the same information. SystemSpecs.macAddrString is the older entry; SystemSpecs.macAddr was added by the September 5th patch.

Also, it's unclear to me whether this information is stored locally only or whether it is also sent to Cryptic's servers. There is no reason why any device outside my home network needs to know the MAC address of my computer.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install the following build:

Version: ST.87.20180613a.41 (SVN 227491)
Release: Victory Is Life
Tribble patch date: 08/30/2018

2. Start the game client, and log on to any character.
3. Exit the game client.
4. Make a copy of your gameprefs.pref file.
5. Install the following build:

Version: ST.90.20180830a.3 (SVN 227723)
Release: Age of Discovery
Tribble patch date: 09/05/2018 (first day on Tribble)

6. Start the game client, and log on to any character.
7. Exit the game client.
8. Open your new gameprefs.pref file.
9. Note that the new file stores the MAC address in both SystemSpecs.macAddrString and SystemSpecs.macAddr.
10. Open your old gameprefs.pref file.
11. Note that the old file contains SystemSpecs.macAddrString, but not SystemSpecs.macAddr.
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