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Anti Hack Mechanism
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hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#1 - 2012-06-23 01:55:50 UTC
It might be a good investment for CCP to give the players an option to have an authentication code when logging in. This code could be given via text email or an app on your phone. This shouldn't be mandatory just optional. Hacks happen and if your a leader of a powerful Null sec alliance or corporation it could be in their interest to protect their accounts. It may also make other people feel safer.
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-06-23 06:53:29 UTC
um, please rename the thread to hack deterrence mechanism.
also, they already have a plan in place to use authenticators, they are trying to put it in though, in a manner that won't break the servers or something.
hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#3 - 2012-06-23 18:13:32 UTC
oh cool.
Gevlin
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-06-23 18:42:22 UTC
in a few interviews they are working on that. there is the code key thingys given out in 2010 as an option and they are also going to give the option of tieing Face Book ID to loging in. It is part of the reason for that annoying eve launcher that many people hate.

So your wish is in the pipe!

Someday I will have the time to play. For now it is mining afk in High sec. In Cheap ships
Stigman Zuwadza
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-06-23 18:47:45 UTC
Linked to Fakebook somehow!!!!!

Don't do it CCP!!!1!

Big smile

It's broken and it's been broken for a long time and it'll be broken for some time to come.
hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#6 - 2012-06-23 19:10:43 UTC  |  Edited by: hired gunman
that would require Facebook to work what if Facebook goes down one day. hackers have attacked Facebook before. that's an unreliable source an authenticator should be like an app on your phone or a sent email.

EDIT* Even a text or a physical device.
Gevlin
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-06-23 19:14:38 UTC
its a choice they are giving to the people!

Ease vs security

Someday I will have the time to play. For now it is mining afk in High sec. In Cheap ships
Kogh Ayon
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-06-25 01:15:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Kogh Ayon
Gevlin wrote:
its a choice they are giving to the people!

Ease vs security

Asking for security code "When the IP address changes (at a large scale)". But since you can't force everybody to enter their mobile phone number, so people gonna get hacked still get hacked, people who are careful just wasting their time, once again.

There could be a way to improve the security on "EVERYONE" without causing trouble to most of the people. Such as a confirmation code(required when login) sent to email when the ip address was changed greatly. And requires answer to secondary questions to change the email address.
sabre906
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2012-06-25 02:28:42 UTC
So, if I tell someone my password as well as the new security code, I can still get hacked?Big smile
hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#10 - 2012-06-25 15:53:49 UTC
not if your security code changes every minute. or less ....
Jackal Datapaw
Doomheim
#11 - 2012-06-25 17:58:25 UTC
A authenticator would be an amazing device, very much like how battlenet has it set up, that being said, here the forewarning. Most people that get hacked, actually due something dumb, or preventable. Like setting the jumpgates as their main passwords, or station ids as their main passwords, they follow unknown links to phishing sites, which there are programs out there that can detect if it a phishing site, like I have one for my web-browsers.

An Authenticator is nice an handy, but if you are not smart with your security, then you will get hacked anyways, an example you go to a phishing site, and enter to many of your authenticator, then people can figure out the algorithm that the authenticator uses to generate it codes.

So if you want to be truely safe, be smart, and use your brain.

commonly suggest cloaking and local ideas

Teinyhr
Ourumur
#12 - 2012-06-25 18:04:15 UTC
Jackal Datapaw wrote:
So if you want to be truely safe, be smart, and use your brain.


Generally, this. But I know people who are "e-smart" and who have gotten their b.net accounts hacked nevertheless. I really do hope we could get mobile authenticators aped from Blizzard, would ease my mind a lot. That is not to say authenticated accounts are impervious to hacking of course, still, it's a lot safer than just relying on ye olde passwords.
hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#13 - 2012-06-25 19:47:57 UTC
Jackal Datapaw wrote:
A authenticator would be an amazing device, very much like how battlenet has it set up, that being said, here the forewarning. Most people that get hacked, actually due something dumb, or preventable. Like setting the jumpgates as their main passwords, or station ids as their main passwords, they follow unknown links to phishing sites, which there are programs out there that can detect if it a phishing site, like I have one for my web-browsers.

An Authenticator is nice an handy, but if you are not smart with your security, then you will get hacked anyways, an example you go to a phishing site, and enter to many of your authenticator, then people can figure out the algorithm that the authenticator uses to generate it codes.

So if you want to be truely safe, be smart, and use your brain.



Even if they can figure out the algorithim that only proves that no system in the world is safe which i already know but added securities protect against the stupid hackers rather than the smart ones.