2011-02-04, 01:07 AM
Jamie_Kurosawa Wrote:You have to look at this from a realistic point of view...
Hackers will find a way to get access to anything. Trying to stop them isn't 100% guaranteed and eventually they will get past things with time. What if next time they break the cyphers used by the Authenticators and find a way to spoof them? Then what? Literally, an authenticator would end up being nothing more than key chain with a random number generator as the hacker could already find a way to get the code, use it, and poof... you've been hacked and you didn't do anything to contribute to it.
Phones aren't immune to malware either... http://www.toptechreviews.net/tech-news/...id-phones/
The hackers must be freaking stupid then, considering the Blizz Auth. has been out for little over 2.5 years now and only one "attack" was used, which involved a "Man-in-the-middle" attack, which wasn't even a hack / crack to the actual device itself.
I'm honestly surprised that you're even trying to argue against adding an extra layer of GOOD protection against hackers in Maple.
EDIT: Forgot to mention how the authenticator servers work. You only have 60sec to enter your randomized number code. After the allotted time has passed, the code becomes invalid and will not register no matter what you do.