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I thought I had read somewhere that they were easily hacked. I could be wrong, its been a while.

And I think the best way they could go about getting people to use these things would be to make it policy that if your account is stolen, your characters and items are not restored. It would free up a lot of Blizzard's resources for other legitimate problems instead of them having to help dumbasses who get their accounts stolen. But they wont do that because they would probably lose subscribers because too much of their user base is made up of these dumbasses.

This.

I feel if your account was hacked, 99% of the time it's nothing more than said 'x' user being a retard and either clicking on a link that has a logger, or simply having a retarded password or something of the such. I've never had any account stolen ever, so I can't realate. I feel bad, but at the same time it probably is slightly your own fault somewhere along the line.

I did notice yesterday when I logged into WoW in-game they had a message about Hackers figuring out more and more ways recently to get into people's accounts. Good times.

I thought I had read somewhere that they were easily hacked. I could be wrong, its been a while.

That seems highly unlikely but if you have an article or something on it I'd love to read it.

As far as I've heard, they are nearly impossible to hack if at all. Like K_A said, you would have to actually have the authenticor itself given that it's a random generated code that updates itself regularly and you cannot change account information without having that code. It's basically a refreshing encryption that is only visible on the thumb drive looking thing.

Touche

The only way I could see a hacker ever getting around an authenticator would be for them to directly hack Blizzard's servers, figure out the serial number of your authenticator from their servers/database, and figure out the algorithm for your specific authenticator from their servers/database. And if someone had the capability to even hack Blizzard's servers to that level, I would imagine authenticators are the least of their worries.

So has Blizzard helped you out at all? I would argue that after paying hundreds of dollars endorsing their product they owe it to you to absolutely give your property back which was stolen while under their supervision. Spin it on them if they try dicking around with you.

they owe it to you to absolutely give your property back which was stolen while under their supervision.

Except it isn't his property (as stated in the EULA, any and all characters, items, etc, are property of Blizzard) and Blizzard had nothing to do with it being stolen, nor could they have prevented it.

I'm actually going to change my previous suggestion. I don't think they should help anyone who gets their account stolen, unless they purchase an authenticator and link it to the account that was stolen. I think that's completely fair, and more than Blizzard is even obligated to do.

Except it isn't his property (as stated in the EULA, any and all characters, items, etc, are property of Blizzard) and Blizzard had nothing to do with it being stolen, nor could they have prevented it.

This is true. What I was mentioning was just in lieu to persuade Blizzard to restore his account. I agree, Authenticators should be mandatory. And I agree that they are not required to restore anything, or to even help out. However, what if people are getting hacked through a glitch/bug in the game, in the armory?

Maybe they should consider giving out free authenticators to all players, that'd be a great incentive on top of the $15/mo all 10 million subscribers pay.