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Blizzard Offers Additional Layer of Security with Authenticator Dongle
Posted 07/02/08 at 05:59:42 PM | by Paul Lilly
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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Submitted by BLACKCELL on Fri, 2008-08-08 13:06
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!
If it really comes to buying
Submitted by Sever on Wed, 2008-07-02 19:21
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!
Submitted by pellier on Wed, 2008-07-02 17:54
this seems stupid but its a genius idea
Rofl, excellent
Submitted by whisp on Wed, 2008-07-02 16:15
Rofl, excellent article
We plan for Tomorrow, but we Live for Today
Pretty cool, actually. If I
Submitted by horzo on Wed, 2008-07-02 16:14
Pretty cool, actually. If I still played that evil life-sucking game, I'd probably buy one.
A leaf out of Paypal's book
Submitted by opulent_rigs on Wed, 2008-07-02 16:02
Much like Paypal's security key.
actually, more companies
Submitted by AndyYankee17 on Wed, 2008-07-02 16:27
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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