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WoW Account Security Problem Fixed Safer Wow account with USB connecting device	By Robert Matei, Gaming News Editor 15th of January 2007, 14:21 GMT Adjust text size:


Your Wow account can become much safer if something as simple as a USB device is plugged in your computer. Some game publishers send USB dongles with a demo version or the still tested/not finished version of a game, to be seen and evaluated. If the dongle isn't plugged in the game, this is not operable. This sparked a brilliant yet simple idea at Blizzard to use this sort of device in protecting your Wow account from trojans and keyloggers. All you have to do is connect the device and you automatically log on with no risk of leaving your id and password in someone else's hands. The thought of this being possible was not totally by chance as there had been some concerns about wow accounts security from earlier times, making it only a matter of time before someone would come up with this idea. There are other devices out there that exist for the sole reason of protecting information and which have one or more levels of security, so it isn't a big deal, not yet anyway; this can only conclude that Blizzard is making a marketing move to insure its customers of their continued (or discontinued) efforts to provide some level of security. Who wouldn't pay to have their privacy "private"? Being in the possession of the largest MMORPG on the planet compels Blizzard to provide not only constant attention, and I'm not talking about simply erasing thousands of accounts. This will not solve the problem and it's just as ineffective as some dongle security gadget.

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