Blizzard, fresh off its Earth-rattling Diablo III news, has just released a small gadget that supposedly improves the security of your World of Warcraft account. Called the Blizzard Authenticator, this small device syncs with your WoW account to provide a second password for each time you log in. The second password is randomly generated for each gaming session. The idea is, simply, two passwords are better than one, the second one being known only to you at the time of logging on.
It’s pretty cheap, too, at only $6.50. Let’s see, spend a few dollars once to order the Authenticator, or see some no-good hacker steal your account info? Seems obvious to me, though I wonder how often accounts gets hijacked. Unless you’re running around Stormwind shouting your username and password, the odds of someone getting your info—keyloggers, trojans, etc.—must be pretty small.
Stealing accounts is a fairly common thing. I’m considering getting one, I know a few people who have had their accounts hacked and stolen. I’m not sure how but with as much time as I have invested in WoW I’d be pretty damn foolish to not get the extra 6.50 worth of protection.
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Just checked the Blizz site and they are sold out. Obviously they didn’t expect anyone to want these or they would have made more, only 10 million people play after all. It’s not like at least one person on every server has been hacked or anything.
Thumbs down Blizz, get more out ASAP.
This sucks, I am in the U.S. ARMY and i tried to buy one, and they wont send one to me here in germany