On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:42 AM, David M Chess <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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...) I think their complaint is Blizzard failed in its responsibility to protect their private/sensitive data. The players took extra measures by purchasing the token, and Blizzard still failed.
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