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Comment execute them (Score -1) 47

I've been on Youtube for 10 years and uploaded over 3000 videos. Let me just say, execute them. In fact, publicly torture them to death as a warning to anyone else pulling this scam. There is nobody we can reach out other than a bot or a foreign contractor that doesn't even speak our language. It's someone walking up to you, stealing your wallet, and walking away and there's nothing we can do about it.

Comment the reason (Score 0) 24

Paypal tried to roll out a new policy to confiscate people's money if they used language that they disagreed with on anything anywhere ever. Just in case you were wondering what the cause was. Everyone took a bit of issue with them being the new Nazi woke police seizing assets for reasons made up by their blue haired freak wokeness department.

Comment A little info from an insider (Score 1, Interesting) 181

Hasbro is losing money left and right because in the last 10 years they made MASSIVE acquisitions with debt and did nothing with them (Power Rangers, a movie studio), so they're treating Wizards of the Coast like a piggy bank by placing then WOTC CEO Chris Cocks in his role (he's now Hasbro CEO) and ever since they've power crept MTG into oblivion, angered everyone, and overprinted everything. So now they're going to WOTC's other division and it was just leaked that they wanted to target $30/mo after their monopoly-causing D&D Beyond acquisition last April. The OGL was just a tiny piece of that.
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Games Are Starting To Require a Phone Number To Play (polygon.com) 62

According to Polyon, players will be required to link a phone number to their Battle.net accounts if they want to play Overwatch 2. "The same two-factor step, called SMS Protect, will also be used on all Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 accounts when that game launches, and new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare accounts," the report adds. From the report: Blizzard Entertainment announced SMS Protect and other safety measures ahead of Overwatch 2's release. Blizzard said it implemented these controls because it wanted to "protect the integrity of gameplay and promote positive behavior in Overwatch 2." Overwatch 2 is free to play, unlike its predecessor. Without SMS Protect, Blizzard reasoned that there is no barrier to toxic players or trolls creating a new account if an existing one is sanctioned. SMS Protect, therefore, ties that account to something valuable -- in this case a player's mobile phone.

SMS Protect is a security feature that has two purposes: to keep players accountable for what Blizzard calls "disruptive behavior," and to protect accounts if they're hacked. It requires all Overwatch 2 players to attach a unique phone number to their account. Blizzard said SMS Protect will target cheaters and harassers; if an account is banned, it'll be harder for them to return to Overwatch 2. You can't just enter any old phone number -- you actually have to have access to a phone receiving texts to that number to get into your account.

Overwatch 2 lead software engineer Bill Warnecke told Forbes that, even if accounts are no longer tied to Overwatch's box price -- because the game is now free-to-play -- Blizzard still wants players to make an "investment" in upholding a safe game. "The key idea behind SMS Protect is to have an investment on behalf of the owner of that account and add some limitations or restrictions behind how you might have an account," Warnecke said. "There's no exclusions or kind of loopholes around the system."
The report notes that Blizzard has refunded one player after they contacted customer support and said they didn't have a mobile phone, but it's unclear if this policy will apply more broadly.

Comment Oh good (Score 1, Insightful) 28

So word on the street is they're keeping the flaws under wraps for other Chrome-based software. I am SOOO glad Discord is based on Chromium instead of, you know, asking a first year programming student to make a basic text messaging service as a weekend assignment. Just like I'm SOOO glad that a billion dollars or whatever later, they STILL haven't hired a crew of programmers...or one programmer...or a chimpanzee to write a basic featured text messaging app that doesn't use scripts and HTML5. Really no excuse for this and this is (allegedly) the result.

Comment Terrible trend (Score 0) 123

If a password gets leaked, you can change it. Fingerprints and irises cannot. Biometrics will never work, the end, period. Phones can get spoofed or SIM-cloned. Hardware keys can be faked or cloned. You know what, I'll stick with a password, thanks. At work I can't use 2FA on my phone because there's no signal through the walls and it's SMS only and I'll hand Google my authenticator data when hell freezes over anyway. So that's out.

How about a centralized public database of all known leaked or stolen passwords and every service can opt-in to not let a user use that combination of credentials when they sign up for any new account? Or make a law that unsalted password storage is illegal to stop rainbow tables and hashed password theft?

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