Corporate accounts almost always have a card or physical authenticator. For my personal account there is a third passphrase you must enter the first time you "register" a computer to their service. Even if someone gets my username/password it would only be useful if used from my PC (or one I have authenticated).
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Diablo III |OT3| Turn On Elective Mode, Get an Authenticator
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Corporate accounts almost always have a card or physical authenticator. For my personal account there is a third passphrase you must enter the first time you "register" a computer to their service. Even if someone gets my username/password it would only be useful if used from my PC (or one I have authenticated).
demosthenes
Member
I vote we stop referring to him as the treasure goblin and address him as what he really is:
Treasure Troll
My friend and I call him Santa, b/c he brings gifts lol
OK for the smartphone but if you can buy a game for 40$, you can afford an authenticator at 5bucks, come on.
Or if you really don't, maybe you shouldn't be playing video games, it's an expensive hobby, sadly.
Dead Prince
Banned
I vote we stop referring to him as the treasure goblin and address him as what he really is:
Treasure Troll
i missed 2 because i was like 1/10th away from killing it and he disappears D:
maabus1999
Member
Oh it is WAY worse then that:
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5271500000?page=1
They don't even use HTTPS. I really think this is why hacking is so prevelant. I know people love to defend blizzard but this is beyond unexcusable and the reason I blame Blizzard for most of this.
That's insane, I'm jelly.
michaelius
Banned
I've noticed that crit chance is included in DPS - does that mean it also affects skill damage ?
Can you abuse that passive DH skill that way ?
Can you abuse that passive DH skill that way ?
Thanks!
Is 14% high? My shield has a 17% chance, didn't think it was anything that great:
No, 14% is low.
Why do you think a lot of people use Sharpshooter ?
Seen a lot of this on gaf alone, I wonder just how many people are getting hacked. Must be big numbers.
If you mean the Critical passive then pretty much every DH abuses it. I jumped on the bandwagon as soon as I unlocked it.
You throw one Impale with Overpenetration against a lined up mob from max distance and you can take out like 8 monsters instantly. I have only 5K DPS but when I throw that thing it does over 20K damage.
I think by 'fairy' he may have meant ferry. referring to the wortham quest at the end of Act I . I know a lot of people run that over and over.
Yeah, it is down again. I wonder how long its going to take to fix these issues.
Baller. PhD
Banned
AH still down. So basically I can't progress.
This is such fucking bullshit. Why do I keep doing this to myself.
This is such fucking bullshit. Why do I keep doing this to myself.
Kinky John
Member
It would be nice if they extended this courtesy to people in Europe. The cost doesn't jump to $14 because of shipping and tax alone.
Lasthope106
Member
What kind of passwords are you guys using to be getting hacked?!
edit: If you are using a password that is extremely simple and doesn't have a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters, you deserve to be hacked. Any word found in a dictionary is a bad password.
edit: If you are using a password that is extremely simple and doesn't have a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters, you deserve to be hacked. Any word found in a dictionary is a bad password.
Memorial Day weekend, I wouldn't expect anything till Tuesday at the earliest. I'm thinking there might be a couple guys working on it, but I'm not expecting much right now.
dehydratedbabies
Member
"If you have the physical or mobile authenticator the chances of you being compromised are very, very small"
"Use them, and enjoy your gaming without someone mucking with your stuff."
That sounds like admitting that authenticators are required to safely play Diablo 3 to me.
How do you know that? My password was relatively strong and my PC is not compromised.
I appreciate the link. I don't understand why Blizzard isn't offering this.
Indeed I can afford the $6.50, but my point is that I shouldn't have to.
I can't, it's my social security number and my birthday combined with my phone number.
demosthenes
Member
Yea...yea...what? Why the hell are you using your SS # as a password?
Oh and anytime you use a password w/ personal information, it's not strong, or even relatively strong.
he was joking
dragonelite
Member
Given the fact that a shitload of unencrypted and encrypted databases have been comprimised i wouldn't be surprised my mail and a list of password is in some dark corner hacker database.
Woo-Fu
Banned
Read it again. Saying that X is Y is not saying that nothing else is Y or that X is the only path to Y.
Relative to what? You think your PC isn't compromised. You think that every website you've visited hasn't had a bit of malicious javascript. You think you haven't used that same password anywhere else on the Internet.
By all means, wave your magic wand and create something 100% secure that is 100% free. TANSTAAFL.
Lol, people don't even have to compromise your PC, they just have to do a bit of research to guess your password. You were probably being sarcastic but people do need to realize that passwords need to be as random as possible and need to use every character set the application allows. Take brute force attacks off the table if at all possible.
There is a much better argument you could be making, namely that nobody could steal your account if you didn't need one in the first place.
More importantly, Blizzard has come up with an interesting fix for the Auction House issues:
Ahh.. that makes sense - I was aware you could do quick Wortham runs but hadn't made the connection!
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Even a good password is easy to hack. An authenticator is the only way to go. I don't know why people are fighting this so much.
demosthenes
Member
How are they doing it besides pure guess work and as someone above said doing research?
How do you guess a random string of letters/#'s?
I've not reported the strangers on my recent players list since my hack. I assume they had to create a public match to move my gear and some may be innocent. But one guy is obviously up to no good. Every time I check he's using playerA, playerB, playerC, etc and they're all lvl 1. Obviously mules.
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I don't care about a roll-back. But y'all think this dude is worth reporting?
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I don't care about a roll-back. But y'all think this dude is worth reporting?
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Are you saying you don't have $6.50? With what money did you buy Diablo 3?
They're not guessing. There are any number of exploits that these hackers are using to get to your password.
aghhhh ... cant... contain.....URGE TO CLICK!!!
ok, ok, Ill wait
Diablo III you are such a shitty game but so fucking addictive. I wonder if all the years in development where spent in researching how to make diablo's loot formula even more addictive than before. I mean it was obviously not spent in the story, balance or the auction house... :/
I love you Diablo, you filthy, soul crushing whore!
Personally I think Banks should offer authenticators for online banking, and same with credit card companies.
I think authenticators are essential for true security. My uncle works for a finance firm and he has an authenticator dongle to log into his computer at work.
All this hacking talk scared me into using an iPod authenticator.
I think authenticators are essential for true security. My uncle works for a finance firm and he has an authenticator dongle to log into his computer at work.
All this hacking talk scared me into using an iPod authenticator.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Why didn't you have an authenticator the minute you installed Diablo?
Because Diablo 3 is my first Battle.net game and i havent know abou that before.
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I got all timed out items a few hours later :/ Got 3 square rubys i didn't need that way.
Dude. Chill.
Woo-Fu
Banned
You don't guess it, you run a brute force password crack against it. Not sure that is even possible with battle.net, though, it should detect those easily and shut you down.
Using upper, lower, numbers, and special characters exponentially? increases the combinations, making brute force attacks less attractive.
That is why you don't just use the same password forever. A brute force attack will eventually crack it if somebody is willing to devote the CPU time to the job.
Littlegator
Banned
Because it wasn't obvious that they existed or were necessary?
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