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I apologise if this has been addressed in the thread before but....
Your average run of the mill addon can not log your keys or steal your login and password.
An addon consists of a few text files , some images and some sounds maybe.
They operate in a sandboxed enviroment so hence have no access to the outside world , can't email anything , can't send anything any where and don't even have access to your hard drive. They can read in from the saved variables and write out to the saved variables at logout/game exit but even that's limited (afaik they can't even name the file).
Also they load after you've already logged in. So even if they could send it somewhere they wouldn't have the information to send as that authentication information's gone by the time they get loaded.
Finally there's never been any concrete proof that wowmatrix has any keyloggers in it. When I say proof I mean a packet sniffer / network report showing authentication data being passed to a non blizzard domain.
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