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TalonBot
03-25-2009, 04:50 PM
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Blizzard (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/blizzard/), Account Security (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/account-security/)

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2008/07/md-authenticator-size.jpgMany of the people who are actually allowed to surf the official World of Warcraft forums (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=10001&sid=1) were a little unhappy with the change to Battle.net accounts simply due to the fact that it meant that if you had an authenticator attached to your account, you now had to use that authenticator to log onto the forums, which wasn't needed before. Even if you're allowed to surf at work, and even if the authenticator has a ring on it to so it can be attached to your keys, not everyone feels comfortable carrying that thing around all of the time. You lose it, you're out of luck for awhile.

The other day, Bornakk announced some good news (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15864749493&sid=1) that I think a lot of those individuals may have missed: They've temporarily removed the requirement to use an authenticator for the forums and the Armory (http://www.wowarmory.com/). In the future, they'll be making this feature optional. You'll be able to choose whether or not you want to use the authenticator on the forums. Why would you want to do that? Well, if your account uses an authenticator, it's going to keep keyloggers and hackers/scammers from stealing your account or characters, but if the authenticator isn't attached to your account on the forums, it can still be used for spamming keylogger links (http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/06/05/how-to-protect-your-system-from-keyloggers/) since all that's needed there is your password. If you have your authenticator turned off, it's going to do a whole load of nothing to stop that from happening.

It's nice that it will be optional, but if you frequent the WoW forums and don't plan on using your authenticator (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/07/12/activating-the-authenticator/) there, keep in mind that you'll still want to be very careful about where you surf and what you click if forum access is something you enjoy having. In my experience, the forum mods are much less forgiving and not nearly as quick to respond as the in-game GM team.http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Authenticators to be optional for the Forums and Armory (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/25/authenticators-to-be-optional-for-the-forums-and-armory/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).




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