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Account Security Archive
Real ID and Parental Controls
Posted on October 3, 2010 | 10 CommentsAs you may recall, I was unable to turn off my parental controls that I had previously enabled, as that was previously the only way to disable Real ID when...
Miscellaneous Points on a Saturday
Posted on October 2, 2010 | 2 CommentsBunch of junk that didn’t really fit anywhere… and… go! Real ID Holy crappo, this is a good thing. Now you can opt-out of friend-of-friend and facebook and still use...No, I couldn’t just pull out the corehound
Posted on August 26, 2010 | No CommentsProving to one’s GM that one has an authenticator is a perfect opportunity for smartassery.
Young Lady, you will not use that Newfangled “Real Eye Dee”
Posted on July 7, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn order to address the addon security flaw that would allow addons to datamine my real name via Real ID, though I have no Real ID friends, I switched on...A quick refresher on Real ID: It’s BAD
Posted on June 22, 2010 | 2 CommentsReal ID is being implemented exactly as it was proposed months ago, with the same security concerns.Monday Haiku: Hackers
Posted on May 17, 2010 | 3 CommentsDear would-be hacker, I am on to your tricksies. Die in a fire.Real ID: Dear Readers, Please Don’t.
Posted on May 5, 2010 | 20 CommentsI'm sure you've seen, or will see, the Real ID FAQ - here it is on wow.com. I'm sorry to say that, beyond the practical problems of being unable to hide on an alt or the risk of hacking, this feature is dangerous in a very real-life way.In-game Mail Scams! Will they never quit?
Posted on April 20, 2010 | 4 CommentsThere are some insidious folk sending mail as Breanni, trying to get you to click a link. But wait, there’s more! Within our guild, we’ve seen them spam the bad...