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giving the authenticator with cataclysm is a good ideahowever, what if you dont ugprade?
snowsurge, if they made a program for the computer to act as an authenticator, then someone who uses malware to take people's accounts could probably use the info that the malware collects to reverse engineer the number generation in order to predict an authenticator code. In fact, all it would take is three accurate guesses to steal someone's account (one to get into the target's Battle.net page, and two to remove the authenticator).
There are a lot of problems, mainly for those who doesn't live in countries where Blizzard have an "office", like me.I'm from Brazil and I play in US realms. I would need to buy the autenticator in the Blizz Store, see it price grow up 200% due to taxes and wait around 2 weeks to put my hands on it.That's is the situation of all brazilians playing WoW (some thousands), and also of people from a lot of other countries.