TalonBot
09-03-2009, 04:31 PM
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m0rtis has an interesting question over on WoW LJ (http://community.livejournal.com/worldofwarcraft/8031544.html): should guilds require authenticators on the accounts of everyone in the guild with bank access? Authenticators are relatively cheap, if not free (http://www.wow.com/2009/04/03/battle-net-mobile-authenticator-hands-on/) (and still in stock most of the time (http://www.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000622) nowadays), so if you're running a guild and in a position where your bank is important enough to protect, should you be able to require authenticators to keep guildies from getting hacked?
There are a few caveats here that m0rtis doesn't mention, but we will: first of all, there's no way to guarantee whether someone is using an authenticator or not, so while you can make guildies promise, there's no real way to check up on them. Second, not all guild banks get emptied out due to hackers -- many guild banks get ninja'd by someone within the guild (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/02/guildwatch-into-the-coliseum/), and there's no authenticator that can protect against that. So having authenticators on bank members (or at least having them promise they've got them) isn't 100% protection. But it is something.
Continue reading Requiring authenticators for guild bank access (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/03/requiring-authenticators-for-guild-bank-access/)
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m0rtis has an interesting question over on WoW LJ (http://community.livejournal.com/worldofwarcraft/8031544.html): should guilds require authenticators on the accounts of everyone in the guild with bank access? Authenticators are relatively cheap, if not free (http://www.wow.com/2009/04/03/battle-net-mobile-authenticator-hands-on/) (and still in stock most of the time (http://www.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000622) nowadays), so if you're running a guild and in a position where your bank is important enough to protect, should you be able to require authenticators to keep guildies from getting hacked?
There are a few caveats here that m0rtis doesn't mention, but we will: first of all, there's no way to guarantee whether someone is using an authenticator or not, so while you can make guildies promise, there's no real way to check up on them. Second, not all guild banks get emptied out due to hackers -- many guild banks get ninja'd by someone within the guild (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/02/guildwatch-into-the-coliseum/), and there's no authenticator that can protect against that. So having authenticators on bank members (or at least having them promise they've got them) isn't 100% protection. But it is something.
Continue reading Requiring authenticators for guild bank access (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/03/requiring-authenticators-for-guild-bank-access/)
Filed under: Items (http://www.wow.com/category/items/), Tips (http://www.wow.com/category/tips/), Guilds (http://www.wow.com/category/guilds/), Economy (http://www.wow.com/category/economy/), Account Security (http://www.wow.com/category/account-security/)
Requiring authenticators for guild bank access (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/03/requiring-authenticators-for-guild-bank-access/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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