I admit, at first I didn't catch it either, but when you mentioned it before I went and looked and was like.. oh. right

 

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Perfectly understandable to misread something once, and when you reread it you noticed what you missed. This guy though, he puts it in his own response to someone and still doesn't see it. I really am in awe of the absurdity of it.

He even goes so far as to insult me by eluding that I'm some child who uses crayons, freakin' hilarious!

 

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Not really.


JoeBobJoe downloads a keylogger.

This program sends results constantly to the 'hackers' computer.....at this point said hacker has two choices.

1. Try to 'snag' the account right now, and wind up fighting the owner for control, who will undoubtedly take steps to find and remove said keylogger, and more than likely have the account locked.

2. Wait until the data shows that the user is not logging in to WOW anymore, perhaps a few weeks in a row with no logins, and then rape and pillage the account at will, with no opposition.


I really don't think the account is any weaker when unsubbed, the player just isn't there to notice changes and take action.

 

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I guess reading isn't Taloquin's strong point.

 

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Never really has been.

 

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Good call on his part not to post in here again though.

 

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So like the difference between getting your head cut off and getting thrown into a wood chipper.

I tell you what, Taloquin, you go start trying out the different permutation of over 300 million possibilities, one at a time. When you are done come back and tell us how long it took. As an added bonus, it will take you so long, we won't have to see you again, ever.

I think what people are trying to say is, at some point, the possible permutations becomes moot. It simply isn't feasible to think that someone got lucky by randomly typing in letter, numbers and symbols in the exact, correct combination. Not to mention, you can't do word problems.

300 million vs 200 billion is irrelevant. Both numbers are so large that the time required to figure out the PW is prohibitive.

 

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Just a note: Battle.net does not support uppercase letters. I had to take the authenticator off my account shortly before I quit, because my Phone took a bath. in less than 2 days my account was hacked. 8 character - Upper/Lower/numbers. Come to find out. The letters weren't case sensitive...

 

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well.. the time required for a person to enter every possible combination is quite high, but the time required for a computer to do that for you is significantly less.. in which case the number of possible combinations does have some impact, because the time increases accordingly. It wont prevent it from being discovered, but it will make it take much longer. of course.. they ALSO would need your account name. this has been made somewhat easier with the asinine decision to use email addresses for bnet login as your new account stuff, rather than something that someone could create unique to the game, but there are enough free emails out there that you can make one to use for bnet just as easily as you'd make one for anything else.

 

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If only Blizzard would implement a feature that automatically locked you out from attempted logins after a small number of failed attempts.

Oh, wait...

 

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