There are so many things wrong with this and it's sad.
FIRST: The terms of service are not limited to RAM scanning. I posted that part of the TOS in my post and it clearly says it can scan ram AND RUNNING PROCESSES OUTSIDE OF WOW. You agreed to this. I'm not sure why so many people on this forum force their eyes shut to this and stomp around with their fingers in their ears going "LA LA LA....I CAN'T HEAR YOU...LA LA LA". Also, there is no WORLDWIDE law regarding this. That's absurd.
Some people can comprehend the ToS better than others, read my post above. You fail to fully understand what it means.
SECOND: "blahblahblah you will get investigated", "blahblahblah you will get investigated". What do you think an investigation consists of? A GM porting to every single bots location and watching to see if it "moves like a bot"? Do you really think all these people who get perma banned are banned based completely on a GM deciding your character moved around 'like a bot'?
I'm sure they have some server-side bot detection put in place, anything else would be unlikely. However, this is most likely not very effective. It it were, why would botting still be such a huge problem? However, this detection is not a process scan method, neither something that is specifically targeted for Honorbuddy. Blizzard recently made a Honorbuddy specific detection attack, however this was fast spotted. Now, if you were to advocate that they make some sort of business out of having botters running, then why would they try to make a new detection that would have caught most of us if not fastly spotted by the development team? If they already had detection in place, why would they use resources to make an alternative way?
While i do not know, if the AMA was from a true Blizzard GM, there was a reddit post not long ago with one claiming to be a previous GM that explained how it worked. If what he says are true, then yes, there are several GMs allocated to watch bot movement and behaviour to determine whatever the player is botting or not. Have you heard of the teleport test? You probrably have and this is clear proof that GMs does infact interfere with bot detection.
THIRD: I am in IT myself and am also a programmer for a very long time. Don't have any law school friends but it's not needed in this instance. I will say this again, yes, in caps... YOU HAVE AGREED TO ALLOW THEM TO SCAN PRETTY MUCH YOUR WHOLE COMPUTER OUTSIDE OF WOW. This includes the hard drive, network info, RAM, running processes, mac address, etc. This makes it legal for them to do this. If you install some game that does not include this in the TOS, then it IS illegal for them to do it. I'll try to explain this for the slow people in the room. If you punch someone in the face in front of a cop, the cop tackles you and takes you to jail. IF YOU ARE A BOXER AND HAVE AGREED TO SANCTIONED FIGHT, YOU CAN LITERALLY BEAT SOMEONE TO DEATH, WITHIN THE RULES AND NOTHING......AT......ALL......WILL......HAPPEN.......TO......YOU. Get it? THEY ARE ALLOWED, and they do.
I have doubts. It is pretty 101 in the IT business to know that you aren't allowed to watch peoples outside of your own allocated memory space? I don't want to hear more about that ToS as i think i have clarified enoug what it means.
But let me give you an example to why it is illegal. The RAM can carry sensitive information, let's assume that some programmer had malicious thoughts, and he had a great idea for a game too. If he were allowed to scan your process, what would stop any game developer from obtaining sensitive information? This is an act of keylogging, spying and is considered malware. Is malware legal in any countries? No, therefor RAM scanning isn't allowed outside of your own allocated memory space.
You are an absolute dumbass if you think everyone gets banned simply by having a GM view the bots movements.
Thanks, thats nice of you to say. I have never said that ALL bans are the cause of that. Maybe they have LCP detection, or maybe they have other bot detection methods in place. You are a dumbass for insinuating something that i have never said. You have absolutely zero proof in your cause, yet you keep using it as a fact, there are so many suggestions that disproof that Honorbuddy is detected.
Law - need i say more.
Several new attempts to detect it for years now - Why waste development time and money, if they already had a 100% working detection method through process scanning
GMs tracking bot behaviour (teleport test) - Why waste GM time and money to track behavior, if they already knew he was a bot through detection?
The wide amount of bots never being banned, or only temporary once - Why would you ban an account for 72 hours for botting, then have the same person bot shortly after and not ban him again? Or perma bans being succesfully appealed, and botting contiuned without a new ban?