Blizzard Offers Additional Layer of Security with Authenticator Dongle
Blizzard Offers Additional Layer of Security with Authenticator Dongle
Posted 07/02/2008 at 2:59pm
| by Paul Lilly
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With over a trillion-quantillion subscribers, World of Warcraft players are finding themselves increasingly popular targets for hackers, and nothing stings worse than logging in to Azeroth only to find your character standing in nothing but his scivvies and all his belongs wiped out. All that time spent acquiring digital doodads and neglecting your family, friends, pets, hygiene, job, and other real-life obligations down the drain.
Such scenarios are becoming far too common, and Blizzards offering WoW residents another way to beat back the bad guys, and it won't cost you any mana. Instead, for $6.50 (that's USD, a form of paper and coin currency used in non-virtual landscapes) you can protect your account with Blizzard's Authenticator dongle. Once linked to your account, the dongle generates a one-time six-digit passcode at the press of button to supplement your regular account password. And because the dongle stays separate from your PC, it's impervious to keyloggers and other similar malware.
Anyone plan on picking one of these up?
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cheap wow gold
March 04, 2009 at 1:44am
It's good that they care for the welfare of their consumers 'coz they know that we spend money to buy wow gold just to level up the character.
BLACKCELL
August 08, 2008 at 12:06pm
UMM DO YOU EVEN PLAY WOW?
because the story was about how bad it has gotten, not about who stupid ppl are. reread and answer like a grown man, please. and save the flaming back. just get your comments correct.
If you had 6 toons on one server all fully geared, and you had over $5,000 in gold on all of your toons, and one day you loged in, and was hacked and raped and ayour stuff gone and your toons deleted, then what would you do? how your you feel?
well that my friend is what most ppl on wow are going threw, and i tell you If blowing $6.50 is to much for you to spend on something that can protect your peice of pleasure. then take your cheap ass and kick your $2500.00 computer out the window!
AntiHero
March 20, 2009 at 7:21am
I second this comment. I've bee hacked before, it's not pleasant, i managed to login and boot him after he unlearned my 450 herbalism and took some of my stuff and all 2k of my gold. No worries, i am making the gold back doing herbalism, and i've changed my password to something with letters, numbers and special characters, not like tha will change much, but it could help. Really it's a good thing, to protect a subscription. If you had a MPC subscription, and someone kept taking out pages, or the disk from the magazine, wouldn't you be pissed off? It's the same thing really. The content is there, but it's not all of it, you're missing something you've come to count on being there.
Sever
July 02, 2008 at 6:21pm
If it really comes to buying a Authenticator dongle then Blizzard needs to start paying the gamers. The only ppl i have ever seen use Authenticator dongles work for a high data risk companies getting paid. If WoW players are to stupid not to get their shit stolen then they had it coming!
horzo
July 02, 2008 at 3:14pm
Pretty cool, actually. If I still played that evil life-sucking game, I'd probably buy one.
AndyYankee17
July 02, 2008 at 3:27pm
actually, more companies could make devices like these, with unique ROMs to protect extremely sensitive information, banks could use them for example
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