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Blizzard Authenticators May Become Mandatory 248

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 09, 2010 @04:27AM from the gotta-take-off-your-shoes-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WoW.com is reporting that a trusted source has informed them that Blizzard is giving serious consideration to making authenticators mandatory on all World of Warcraft accounts. The authenticators function the same as ones provided by most banks — in order to log in, you must generate a number on the external device. Blizzard already provides a free iPhone app that functions as an authenticator. The source stated, 'it is a virtually forgone conclusion that it will happen.' This comes after large spates of compromised accounts left Bizzard game masters severely backlogged by restoration requests."

Comment Re:I wonder (Score 5, Insightful) 369

by Teflonatron on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @02:03PM (#30062882) Attached to: Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close

I didn't see anything in the actual report that explained how their results were arrived at. For that reason alone, this report is worthless. It's just a marketing document for use in selling their own security products.

However, it did make reference to the numbers being representative of "reported vulnerabilities", which we all know is going to make Firefox look worse that IE. This is verified by realizing Opera (also closed source) scored less than IE.

Comment Re:One more nail in the coffin.... (Score 1) 853

by Teflonatron on Monday August 31, 2009 @05:30PM (#29266809) Attached to: Emergency Government Control of the Internet?

So what incentive does the President have during his second term?

Comment Re:Backwards (Score 1) 853

by Teflonatron on Monday August 31, 2009 @03:58PM (#29265465) Attached to: Emergency Government Control of the Internet?

(I voted for him twice - lesser of two evils each time)

You know, each time I hear somebody say this, I ask myself: "Do people who say this realize they are admitting to voting for evil?"

How The Matrix Online Went Wrong 144

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 27, 2009 @06:17AM from the not-like-this dept.

As the July 31st deadline for The Matrix Online's closure looms, Gamer Limit is running a story discussing the game's shortcomings, as well as some of the decisions that led to its failure. Quoting: "I honestly thought the writers must have absolutely hated the remaining cast of The Matrix Trilogy or something, because they constantly seemed to go out of their way to phase out existing characters in favor of newer ones. The cast overall basically made me, as a player, feel distant from the main storyline and made the entire game feel like a Matrix side story instead of the continuation it was meant to be. ... When MxO first launched there was an entire team dedicated to playing the game as Agents and other key characters as a means to further in-game events and directly interact with players, giving players the feeling that they truly were making a difference. After the SOE buyout of the game the LESIG team was reduced to playing minor characters before eventually being phased out and replaced with a Live Event Team (LET) comprised purely of volunteers."

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