Additional, optional, security for COH?


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I was just thinking, between the normal account theft MMOs have and the recent lulzSec nonsense, what could be done to make MMOs a bit more secure? As such, what's out there from the game companies themselves? Not on their back end, but tools and options available to us players? What should be available to us players? Good ideas you've not seen anywhere yet?

NCSoft allows you to have a master account that has a different login/password than your individual games, which is good. My COH, Aion and Guild Wars accounts all have different logins and passwords.

Blizzard has their famous authenticators for WOW and now Battle.Net (I think).

There was one game that had a captcha in the game itself (Atlantica? Dynasty Warriors?).

I recall hearing another game having a virtual keypad where you had to click in a PIN (an attempt to thwart keyloggers, I suppose).

I think Nexon or one of the other game companies will evaluate your password (one of those strength-meter things).

Is there more out there? Reasonable stuff, mind you... a few Korean games install some stuff that tries to protect the game from hacking, keyloggers, etc, but I don't necessarily think that sort of thing really works.

I realize this is no substitute to being smart about things on your end; not constantly reusing logins/passwords, running scans for malware, etc., but I figure its worth asking and discussing. I expect Freedom to rather successful, and as such would like to see at least one more option come around simply because success attracts parasites from the RMT "industry."


 

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The only one of those that makes any real difference to security is Blizzard's authenticator (or any other 2-factor authentication mechanism), all the others do is give you a false sense of security.


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