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I have a key fob for my MMORPG character account. It seems ridiculous to me that my video game has greater security than my email or even my bank. It was a $10

I have a key fob for my MMORPG character account. It seems ridiculous to me that my video game has greater security than my email or even my bank. It was a $10 one-time fee to have the fob shipped to me.

blasdel 17y ago
MMORPG accounts are a particularly perverse case -- they're a perfect commodity for automated exploits, there's a very high floor on value (the subscription cost), and law enforcement doesn't give a shit.
Timothee 17y ago
I would love having a key fob for my bank accounts, if anything just not to have to make stuff up for the "security" questions…
- whatusername 17y ago
  Banks here are offering SMS confirmations as a 2 factor Auth. So I can transfer money to existing accounts fine - but any new account or bill requires a code that is SMSed to a pre-set number (and resetting the # requires a SMS as well) key fob for google would be nice though. I'd be pretty tempted to pay
catch23 17y ago
I'm guessing there's no incentive for Google to care. If your gmail gets hacked, Google loses 1 user. (even though you lose a lot more) If someone hacks a blizzard account, it screws up the blizzard economy.
- dangoldin 17y ago
  I'm not sure I buy it. That one user can probably cause a lot more users to quit than the Wow player. The screw up to the Blizzard economy will be temporarily and will be corrected in less than a day.
  - randallsquared 17y ago
    The screw up to the Blizzard economy will be temporarily and will be corrected in less than a day. Why do you think this? If by "corrected" you mean the user will get their stuff back quickly, that isn't so in my experience. Sometimes, some stuff will be restored quickly, but it might take days or weeks for some of it, and chances are that you'll never see some of it back. I'm not sure how they do logging, but such delays imply that it must be pretty human-intensive to get a record of what's been taken and restore it.
    - dangoldin 17y ago
      I thought you were referring to the macro level (ie someone selling all your stuff). I think from the micro level you probably lose your char but no one else in the universe is going to be affected significantly.

blasdel 17y ago

MMORPG accounts are a particularly perverse case -- they're a perfect commodity for automated exploits, there's a very high floor on value (the subscription cost), and law enforcement doesn't give a shit.

Timothee 17y ago

I would love having a key fob for my bank accounts, if anything just not to have to make stuff up for the "security" questions…

whatusername 17y ago
Banks here are offering SMS confirmations as a 2 factor Auth. So I can transfer money to existing accounts fine - but any new account or bill requires a code that is SMSed to a pre-set number (and resetting the # requires a SMS as well) key fob for google would be nice though. I'd be pretty tempted to pay

catch23 17y ago

I'm guessing there's no incentive for Google to care. If your gmail gets hacked, Google loses 1 user. (even though you lose a lot more) If someone hacks a blizzard account, it screws up the blizzard economy.

dangoldin 17y ago
I'm not sure I buy it. That one user can probably cause a lot more users to quit than the Wow player. The screw up to the Blizzard economy will be temporarily and will be corrected in less than a day.
- randallsquared 17y ago
  The screw up to the Blizzard economy will be temporarily and will be corrected in less than a day. Why do you think this? If by "corrected" you mean the user will get their stuff back quickly, that isn't so in my experience. Sometimes, some stuff will be restored quickly, but it might take days or weeks for some of it, and chances are that you'll never see some of it back. I'm not sure how they do logging, but such delays imply that it must be pretty human-intensive to get a record of what's been taken and restore it.
  - dangoldin 17y ago
    I thought you were referring to the macro level (ie someone selling all your stuff). I think from the micro level you probably lose your char but no one else in the universe is going to be affected significantly.