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Originally Posted by AngelWJedi
i find it funny they added new stuff. people still get hacked with the other stuff they added what makes them think this would work? when past stuff hasnt worked out.
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The majority of people who are hacked are hacked via their own stupidity and greed, not because of any failure on the part of ANet/NCSoft's security measures.
Yes, I find it insane that you do not have to enter your old password correctly in order to change it... that's pretty basic and standard account security everywhere else - and yet, hacking still happens on an incredibly wide scale, even in games or other applications which require the old password.
Here's a tip - most of the time when someone hacks an account, they DO have the old password. This is why ANet/NCSoft doesn't feel requiring it to be entered is going to help matters any.
People are inherently stupid about their internet behaviors... they use the same password everywhere. They use stupid passwords like "password." They use
one of these as their passwords. They go bleating their IGNs on forums such as this, or worse, use their IGNs as IDs on sites like this - along with the same password they use everywhere else... and sites like this
are easy to hack. Not because of a failure on the part of the site management or site programmers, but because software like vBulletin is inherently chock full of security holes. They let friends/guildies log into their account. They have never learned to comprehend the idea that "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is." They are driven by greed, and will buy into any scam that they think is going to somehow gain them an advantage (beta keys, unique weapons, extra platinum, etc.). They're stupid enough to deal with RMTs. They don't pay attention to the links they're clicking on, will download questionable software, and end up with keyloggers on their system... and they don't have the sense to scan for these things regularly, or to change their passwords regularly, or to have a single dedicated email address for
each game they play, etc.
The list goes on...
And of course, when they DO get hacked, they come here and cry about it... and insist that they never did any of those things.
Yes, they did.
IF their account being hacked was a result of an exploit on a site like Guru, there would be hundreds, if not thousands of people all reporting their accounts hacked over a period of
days, if not hours.
People get hacked because they are lax about their own security... then they blame everyone else for their problem. It's never them... how often do we see a "damn, I got hacked because I was stupid" post?
Despite that usually being the reason the majority of them were hacked to begin with.
I spend about 10 hours a week of my 40+ hour work week dealing with gamers whose accounts have been hacked or whose credit card info has been phished. The instances where it was
truly a failure on the side of the provider, rather than on the side of the client (player), are exceedingly rare.
