Blizzard giving serious consideration to mandatory authenticators

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1-08-2010 @ 1:13AM

JoeHelfrich said...

They don't even have to do that; they've already proven they can make these as stand alone software applications (for iPod/iPhone and other mobile phones); so just come up with an authenticator that runs on the local desktop.

It's not as secure, but as long as the seed number for the authenticator is something random combined with the date stamp at activation, it should be practically impossible to hack--no significant percentage of account hacks involves actually having physical access to the machine, they just get people to give away information without realizing it. Then you can keep selling the stand alone physical authenticators as a "more secure" option--less likely to ever be hackable, no need to go through authenticator problems if your hard disk crashes, able to be used with multiple computers, etc.

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