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Item & TC Protection
So the amount of hackings and compromised accounts have been growing a lot lately. So what I was thinking is implementing a secondary level of protection for the their self.
Back when I was into runescape (a long time ago) they had a feature for this. Your bank account in-game had it own PIN number. So even if someone managed to hack into your account they still couldn't access your items without that PIN number. It would be nice if you could activate a PIN on your account that would be required for all item and TC transfers on your account. This would be a selectable feature in your account settings of course, so no one would be forced to use it.
Its a simple idea thats very effective. I don't see any reasons not to have it.
Back when I was into runescape (a long time ago) they had a feature for this. Your bank account in-game had it own PIN number. So even if someone managed to hack into your account they still couldn't access your items without that PIN number. It would be nice if you could activate a PIN on your account that would be required for all item and TC transfers on your account. This would be a selectable feature in your account settings of course, so no one would be forced to use it.
Its a simple idea thats very effective. I don't see any reasons not to have it.
Last edited by Kohta; May 2, 2016 at 12:13 PM.
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Originally Posted by K0HTA
So the amount of hackings and compromised accounts have been growing a lot lately. So what I was thinking is implementing a secondary level of protection for the their self.
Back when I was into runescape (a long time ago) they had a feature for this. Your bank account in-game had it own PIN number. So even if someone managed to hack into your account they still couldn't access your items without that PIN number. It would be nice if you could activate a PIN on your account that would be required for all item and TC transfers on your account. This would be a selectable feature in your account settings of course, so no one would be forced to use it.
Its a simple idea thats very effective. I don't see any reasons not to have it.
You mean something like the Steam Mobile Authenticator?? I see no harm in adding a feature like this that can help you secure your account more.
Although if someone is able to hack into your account, wouldn't it be quite "easy" to find out, as tyzi said?
Last edited by nerti; May 4, 2016 at 02:55 AM.
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It's an additional layer of protection, regardless. All these other games like Runescape and Maplestory use it, so if it were completely useless I don't imagine they would continue using it. It must have some positive effect.
It's not just a 4 digit code we'd input into a textbox. If you look at how it's used in the games I mentioned, it displays the numbers on a grid, and after selecting a digit it randomises the position of the numbers. I'm no techpert but I'd guess this would make it somewhat resistant to brute force hacking.
It's not just a 4 digit code we'd input into a textbox. If you look at how it's used in the games I mentioned, it displays the numbers on a grid, and after selecting a digit it randomises the position of the numbers. I'm no techpert but I'd guess this would make it somewhat resistant to brute force hacking.
Last edited by Ele; May 4, 2016 at 04:32 AM.
Originally Posted by TyZi
Brute forcing your way into a PIN (4 digits especially) isn't hard for someone who can compromise your account. See: people brute forcing into iOS lockscreens
Well you have a valid point there, I saw that ele made a good point against it as well, but let me add this to it.
Not every hacker is educated in what they are doing, most are just kids that learned the bare minimum and don't know how to do much with it. So lets look at it like this. Lets say we have 100 hackers in the community, 10 of those hackers are advanced in their craft, while the other 90 can be amounted to someone knowing just a small party trick compared to the other's skills. Adding this second layer of protection could stop the 90 of them in their tracks and then the only ones left to worry about are those 10 people. This addition might not stop the issue completely, but it sure as hell would lower the amount of people able to cause the problem.
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But how about buying items from the market? Say iRookie has 300k and someone hacks him then makes him buy their chronos grip for 300k. What would you do to plug that possibility? Entering a PIN for buying market items too?
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