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Diablo III |OT3| Turn On Elective Mode, Get an Authenticator
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Authenticator? i must know
Really makes no sense at all.
Wonder if hackers are using usernames and posted blizz tags from this thread as a starting point..
Log-ins are via e-mail. It's unlikely that knowing someones Battletag would help in the process.
Unless I'm just horribly naive.
GET AUTHENTICATORS PEOPLE.
I'm willing to go as low as 10k per tome, and I'm not playing WoW currently
(or ever)
Maybe I should sell then. I have 80 of them currently, and no intention of upgrading until 1.0.3....
Yes, they do a revert, so don't bother playing the character. And the thread title isn't a joke.
Come on, people.Honestly, it's probably something as simple as brute force. If you've ever received a WoW spam e-mail, guaranteed, you're on a huge list of potential hackable targets used by a vast number of people.
For reals. If keyloggers were this widespread we'd have seen a complete collapse of the personal banking system by now. Something else has to be wrong with their security.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
My RL friend got hacked recently too. Went ahead and put an authenticator on my account...really lame that it feels like Im required to do this though. Sometimes my phone is a piece of shit and doesnt want to cooperate with me :/
They do a restore but its usually a bit behind from your current progress.
They do a restore but its usually a bit behind from your current progress.
on wow they restored my stuff. dunno about here.
I'm willing to go as low as 10k per tome, and I'm not playing WoW currently
(or ever)
I hear you have an item with 34% MF that you are willingly to give up for free.
If by "willing to give up for free" you mean "holding onto for when the RMAH opens", then yes, yes I do.
Do they rollback everything? Like I'll lose my Inferno Belial kill and stuff? :|
There isn't much of anything except AE fear on a 20 second cooldown and Spirit walk which you can improve up to 3 seconds. There is also AE confuse on a 60 second refresh but that's a long time to wait.
There is also spirit vessel passive that reduces the cooldowns of the spirit walk and the AE fear and adds an automatic spirit walk instead of death every 2 minutes.
Outside of that, you have nothing. Hope that your pet(s) can tank?
ComputerMKII
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Fuck 'Blood and Sand' on Hell. It's too damn long.
My WoW account got nailed near the beginning of Cataclysm. At the time I did not have an authenticator (had one in the past, felt I wasn't stupid enough to get keylogged), and I got nailed. Since I used the same password as I do on some websites, I assumed one of them was compromised and that's how they got in...but seeing all the craziness going on with D3, I just don't know.
WoW compromised accounts are pretty common as well, so it's entirely possible whoever pulls off the WoW compromises is behind the D3 ones. No idea how they manage to get in, but they sure do. But in the vast majority of cases, having an authenticator prevents all of this. I don't want to hear this "I don't have a smartphone!" business...you can get a used one for super cheap, or buy one of their pieces of hardware! They were even essentially giving them away in a twitter "Contest" for quite a while. (I got one, but use the Android app) I've seen people say that they "don't want to give Blizzard any more money", but I can't imagine they made these authenticators to make a buck. If that were the case, why allow the mobile apps for free?
WoW compromised accounts are pretty common as well, so it's entirely possible whoever pulls off the WoW compromises is behind the D3 ones. No idea how they manage to get in, but they sure do. But in the vast majority of cases, having an authenticator prevents all of this. I don't want to hear this "I don't have a smartphone!" business...you can get a used one for super cheap, or buy one of their pieces of hardware! They were even essentially giving them away in a twitter "Contest" for quite a while. (I got one, but use the Android app) I've seen people say that they "don't want to give Blizzard any more money", but I can't imagine they made these authenticators to make a buck. If that were the case, why allow the mobile apps for free?
If by "willing to give up for free" you mean "holding onto for when the RMAH opens", then yes, yes I do.
Oh god and it's a WD item too.
You bastard.
The Diablo treadmill makes for an excellent way to catch up on various podcasts.
Dammit I need to start doing this. Haven't listend to GiantBomb in almost a YEAR!
my theory is these accounts were compromised a long time ago by people waiting for a release of either wow expansion or D3. when you get huge waves like this it's really the only thing that makes sense.
Yep. Yep, yep, yep. (I'm subscribed to way too many, but I can't just ditch em... My childrren~.)
i'm pretty much caught up on Totally Rad Show, rofl
That's what they usually do. Best time to hit it is at the start of a launch, when everyone is being stupid and careless and profits are high.
Screw it, i'm going to get a real authenticator now instead of just using the Ipad version. Ultimate safety.
I wonder how this will effect people who want to go into public PVP when that hits?
I've only got it every so often, but now I think i'll switch.
I wonder how this will effect people who want to go into public PVP when that hits?
I've only got it every so often, but now I think i'll switch.
I have it set to once a week. The setting honestly does not matter, and is largely for peace of mind because some people are paranoid.
If you log in from anything that's not your PC, you'll still be asked for it no matter what that setting is set to.
I disabled that. It does ask you again if your IP address changes.
I disabled it, but I'm on a dynamic IP, so I have to authenticate each day regardless. It's not a big deal.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=475656
Physical Dongle is $6.50, the mobile ones are free.
You can also use WinAuth if you don't have a smart phone.
xxjuicesxx
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What the hell are green items? lol I've never even seen an orange yet.
Items from a set
Set items. Every additional item (or a specific amount) in the set gives a bonus as well.
i do it every time.
WinAuth is a last resort, although it is certainly better than having nothing. It won't do a lick of good if your PC is totally compromised, however.
Solo?
It's the best fight in the game, IMO. It was so intense in our 4 player game last night, felt good when we got him down.
Seems okay, does anyone have experience with it?
It works. If you don't have any other options it absolutely should be used, no exceptions, no excuses.
cpp_is_king
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The fact that they use case insensitive passwords certainly doesnt help (not to mention that its fucking laughably stupid from a security standpoint)
I don't think they're going to go through the trouble to crack your key, though it is possible of course.
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