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[Simon Willison's Links] Apparently Blizzard have been selling two factor authentication key fobs for World of Warcraft for about six months. Posted 6th December 2008 at 9:52 am.

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[Nelson's Weblog] Nelson's Weblog: tech / wow-blizzard-authenticator: Two factor authentication is nothing new, but in the USit's unusual for it to be available in such a common consumer product.A lot of my friends who play the game have gotten authenticators forthemselves after seeing people lose their accounts. Sure wish I could easilyget the same protection at my bank.

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[SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities] World of Warcraft to get bank-like security: Players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft can now use two-factor authentication similar to what many banks and investment firms have adopted, developer Blizzard announced last week.

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[TechNet Blogs] Security Minded - from Kai the Security Guy : World of Warcraft ...: All connections to the Game and/or the Service, whether created by the Game Client or by other tools and utilities, may only be made through methods and means expressly approved by Blizzard. Under no circumstances may you connect, or create tools that allow you or others to connect, to the Game's proprietary interface other than those expressly provided by Blizzard for public use.”

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[Security Musings] Security Musings » Blog Archive » World of Warcraft offers One ...: Unfortunately, I have a North American account (although, I can play on EU servers, so maybe?). The EU is a smaller market than North America, so perhaps this is a “pilot”

[Amazon Game Room's Blog] Amazon Game Room's Blog: "Grand Theft Auto IV" for PC to Ship with ...: One thing I did notice in the linked article is that Rockstar isn't limiting the game to one computer, although you will have to authenticate the game on that computer as well. Not every game allows you to do this - and games seem to allow this more often than other software if you care to look - so that's a plus if you have more than one computer and want or need the game installed on more than on PC (for example, if one is busy doing something else that can't spare the resources for gaming as well).

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