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EVE Authenticator?
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Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#21 - 2012-06-09 15:04:28 UTC
Kurfin wrote:
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Just make a 64 character password containing random combinations of letters, numbers & special characters like intelligent people already do. And change it every few weeks.


And have it written on a bit of paper stuck to your monitor?



Very safe indeed Lol

brb
Richard Desturned
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2012-06-09 15:14:26 UTC
Security is a process, not a product.

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Lord Amaterasu
Aves Autem Obumbratio
#23 - 2012-06-09 16:16:48 UTC
This is the reason why blizzard is selling those authenticators.

Long live the Empress Catiz of Amarr!!
Mr Kidd
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2012-06-09 16:24:57 UTC
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:
Kurfin wrote:
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Just make a 64 character password containing random combinations of letters, numbers & special characters like intelligent people already do. And change it every few weeks.


And have it written on a bit of paper stuck to your monitor?



Very safe indeed Lol


Actually it is very safe since I'll assume that 1) your friends aren't tools and 2) you're not letting total strangers into your home. Granted, it's not a safe practice in public environments. But to say it's not safe in your own home well......

Don't ban me, bro!
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#25 - 2012-06-09 16:47:33 UTC
*[generic let those of us with static ip's lock our accounts to said ip's]*

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Josef Djugashvilis
#26 - 2012-06-09 16:55:43 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Just make a 64 character password containing random combinations of letters, numbers & special characters like intelligent people already do. And change it every few weeks.


I just wish I was smart enough to remeber a 64 character password.

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masternerdguy
Doomheim
#27 - 2012-06-09 17:28:12 UTC
Mme Pinkerton wrote:
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Just make a 64 character password containing random combinations of letters, numbers & special characters like intelligent people already do. And change it every few weeks.

oops, there was a vulnerability in the PNG processing library used by your webbrowser (actually happened for Firefox & Chrome in February this year) and while you loaded a maliciously crafted lolcat picture I installed a keylogger on your computer.

bad luck.


This. You can have a 40 million character password and it won't matter if the machine you typed it on is compromised.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Widow Cain
#28 - 2012-06-09 17:32:44 UTC
EVE doesn't need an authenticator because they didn't fail internet 101 and use email addresses (omg DUH) as account names.

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Tobiaz
Spacerats
#29 - 2012-06-09 18:22:07 UTC
Chribba wrote:
*[generic let those of us with static ip's lock our accounts to said ip's]*


And what of those that don't have static IP?

And what of those that travel around a lot?

I'm OK with locking IP, but at least make it an optional layer of security.

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Richard Desturned
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#30 - 2012-06-09 18:34:57 UTC
Lord Amaterasu wrote:
This is the reason why blizzard is selling those authenticators.


hahahahah that's hilarious

npc alts have no opinions worth consideration
EVE Roy Mustang
Doomheim
#31 - 2012-06-09 18:38:05 UTC
Lord Amaterasu wrote:
This is the reason why blizzard is selling those authenticators.


yeah.... Id TOTALLY follow the link lol
Richard Desturned
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#32 - 2012-06-09 18:40:18 UTC
EVE Roy Mustang wrote:
Lord Amaterasu wrote:
This is the reason why blizzard is selling those authenticators.


yeah.... Id TOTALLY follow the link lol


it's a forum thread

npc alts have no opinions worth consideration
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#33 - 2012-06-09 18:56:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Lin-Young Borovskova
Mr Kidd wrote:
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:
Kurfin wrote:
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Just make a 64 character password containing random combinations of letters, numbers & special characters like intelligent people already do. And change it every few weeks.


And have it written on a bit of paper stuck to your monitor?



Very safe indeed Lol


Actually it is very safe since I'll assume that 1) your friends aren't tools and 2) you're not letting total strangers into your home. Granted, it's not a safe practice in public environments. But to say it's not safe in your own home well......


If you don't subscribe to suspicious forums

If you don't use hacks/bots

If you don't use steamcrap

Don't open some mails or protect your outlook whatever with your AV

And the list is long, but as far as you have an updated AV/FW run ant trojan/malware programs at least once a week you shouldn't get your PW compromised by any means even with a simple 4 char code.

Even at home all you need is to let your computer 5 min in someone's hands not knowing what he's doing to get half dozen malwares/virus etc. and give your pw's without even knowing it.

brb
Acot Voth
State War Academy
Caldari State
#34 - 2012-06-09 19:02:36 UTC
I'd buy.
Morganta
The Greater Goon
#35 - 2012-06-09 19:06:31 UTC
stop spending your life on pron sites and downloading pirated games.

there is absolutely no reason for a fricking video game to have better security than your banking institution.

stop thinking its everyone else's job to keep your **** safe, stop being high risk
adam smash
Department of Gub'nent Welfare
Harkonnen Federation
#36 - 2012-06-09 19:24:57 UTC
No we do not need an authenticator... let the morons get "hacked"

/thread
Patient 2428190
DEGRREE'Fo'FREE Internet Business School
#37 - 2012-06-09 19:59:33 UTC
They did give them out last year fanfest with a promise to turn them on "soon". Of course, that never happened. They even promised sometime this summer to turn them on. Spolier alert, hasn't happened yet.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#38 - 2012-06-09 20:15:46 UTC
The reason they've not been turned on yet, apparently, is due to the infrastructure requirements for when someone loses theirs. (How do you prove who you are, to get it redone). It is all covered in that video linked earlier


I'd /love/ it if they used the functionality of the google authenticator. You configure can configure it with a qr code, then use your phone as a soft key (or multiple phones, if you have them).

There's a nice plugin for wordpress to use it too.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
Spy 21
Doomheim
#39 - 2012-06-09 20:24:08 UTC
Kurfin wrote:
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Just make a 64 character password containing random combinations of letters, numbers & special characters like intelligent people already do. And change it every few weeks.


And have it written on a bit of paper stuck to your monitor?


Exactly.

I worked for a company once that had these absurdly strong password requirements plus the need to change every thirty days, checked against every previous password you had ever used for similarities....

Sticky notes on every computer in the office.

Great security there...

S

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