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Re: Blizzard Faces Class Action Over Battle.net Security
From: David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:42:01 -0500
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/11/09/blizzard-faces-class-action-over-battlenet-security
Two gamers have filed a class action against Blizzard Entertainment last week on behalf of Battle.net account holders, accusing the company of failing to properly secure players' personal information and requiring them to purchase a Battle.net Authenticator "in order to have even minimal protection for their sensitive personal, private, and financial data."
Heh! Don't know the details here, but this seems weird. Blizzard offers hardware two-factor authentication for a trivial fee, which is more than most US banks do, ffs. And they're being sued because it's not free? Or something? Or because if you -don't- elect to use it, the resulting security isn't as good? Better they shouldn't have offered it at all, I suppose. (My World of Warcraft characters are better protected than like 99.9% of the rest of my non-work-related digital data...) DC
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