Re: Blizzard Faces Class Action Over Battle.net Security

[David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>]

>
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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