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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 bl
by 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 agoI'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 agoThe 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 agoI 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.