2011-02-04, 06:26 AM
Tweeted, although I don't expect to be able to use it, even if they do implement it, since I'm not in North America (so they would never ship me the physical device) and I don't have an iPhone.
@Jamie: do you leave your car, house, or office unlocked, just because it's been proven time and again that anywhere can be broken into?
Also, your suggestion based on authorized PCs: I've actually been thinking of algorithms for "verifying" a PC which would make it hard to hack but still possible for the legit user to switch PC's. The basic concept is that a PC (or even IP address, it doesn't make much difference) becomes more "trusted", for a specific account, the more cumulative hours that account is logged in from it. At first, you can log in, but are in a mode resembling "hellban" - can't transfer any meso, nx, or items to any other account, can't drop, use scrolls, divorce, delete chars, etc. As you accumulate time on that pc (training and chatting?) you slowly gain trust and are allowed more and more actions. However, thinking about it a bit more carefully shows there are a lot of "what if's" that need to be addressed, and the algorithm would necessarily end up quite complex. Complex = buggy, especially where Nexon is involved.
So, I'll just take the tried-and-true authenticator, tyvm. Only problems I see with that
- It makes it impossible to share accounts... which Nexon forbids anyway.
- What if you lose the device? Nexon's customer service being what it is, their way of getting around that would either be too easy for hackers to use, or so hard you'd pretty much lose your account permanently if you lost the device.
@Jamie: do you leave your car, house, or office unlocked, just because it's been proven time and again that anywhere can be broken into?
Also, your suggestion based on authorized PCs: I've actually been thinking of algorithms for "verifying" a PC which would make it hard to hack but still possible for the legit user to switch PC's. The basic concept is that a PC (or even IP address, it doesn't make much difference) becomes more "trusted", for a specific account, the more cumulative hours that account is logged in from it. At first, you can log in, but are in a mode resembling "hellban" - can't transfer any meso, nx, or items to any other account, can't drop, use scrolls, divorce, delete chars, etc. As you accumulate time on that pc (training and chatting?) you slowly gain trust and are allowed more and more actions. However, thinking about it a bit more carefully shows there are a lot of "what if's" that need to be addressed, and the algorithm would necessarily end up quite complex. Complex = buggy, especially where Nexon is involved.
So, I'll just take the tried-and-true authenticator, tyvm. Only problems I see with that
- It makes it impossible to share accounts... which Nexon forbids anyway.
- What if you lose the device? Nexon's customer service being what it is, their way of getting around that would either be too easy for hackers to use, or so hard you'd pretty much lose your account permanently if you lost the device.