(06-12-2012, 04:22 PM)Ashock Wrote:(06-12-2012, 12:08 AM)Chesspiece_face Wrote:(06-11-2012, 11:53 PM)Ashock Wrote: No. However, there's been several threads in general about ppl getting hacked while using it. Either way, I'm not about to start using one.
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Major problem with a simple solution. Solution refused.
I hope you have a recliner, home theater system, and hot buttery popcorn in that hole you've got your head in.
Excuse me. Why should I spend my money and on top of that inconvenience myself in order to play a free-to play game? WTF is your problem?
And yes Mavfin. It IS Blizzards fault. No other games have this problem.
If you got your nose out of their butt, you would see that, Pinocchio.
Jeez, you are an annoying one.
As has already been posted, Rift and some other games have authenticators for the same issue, as well as even Google for gmail if you want. So, no, Blizzard is not the only company. They're just the most profitable to hit, and the most targeted, ergo the most known. B.net is a huge pool of users. Millions of WoW players, D3 players and SC2 players, all in one huge DB. Yeah, it's a great target.
The authenticators don't do anything for Blizzard's security, actually. Absolutely no positive or negative impact to the security of Blizzard's servers is made. They just save Blizzard money restoring accounts after client-side compromises of login information, however they may happen, whether it be client compromise or phishing, or too-similar passwords on other accounts. Just means if someone gets your info they can't just log right in and take over.
I hope you like your head in that dark, smelly cavern. Please post your tinfoil on the official forums where it belongs and quit trashing up the Lounge with it. I did call it right in my first post replying to you. Your Blizzard-hate is showing again.
(06-12-2012, 04:21 PM)RiotInferno Wrote: Quark / Treesh, thanks for the extra info on where authenticators are being used, and how banks seem to be more secure! Security is something that I know just enough about that I don't really look into it very deeply.
Chase uses the same basic technology on their website, but generates and delivers the codes to the users in different ways than Blizzard's system. As Quark said, they have more restrictions that will simply get the online access stopped till the customer verifies it's them, but, Blizzard is gaming, not banking, so that makes sense.
--Mav