Authenticator failure revisited, Blizzard responds

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8-05-2008 @ 2:57PM

happykansas said...

Thats what I was thinking. It would be a good assumption to assume that blizzard uses the same algarithem(sp) in the chip and just uses the serial as the unique input. Hacker probably pulled the chip from a fab, dumped the chips program. and just rewrote a simple script. To input any serial.

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