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Zormaka Brutus
Supalayian
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Posted - 2010.02.10 08:21:00 -
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Hey all,
Since some of my friends and corp mates have seen there accounts "hacked" we studied the problem : - no malware, ISK buying or keylogger where involved in this cases. - we found that all hacked account have their account name used in one or more EVE related forum. It appears that accounts name are "farmed" on public forums and brute force have been applied to find the password.
We want CCP to implements account renaming to allow us to change out account name on a regular basis, just like our password. Thanks.
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Zormaka Brutus
Supalayian
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Posted - 2010.02.10 20:52:00 -
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Originally by: Jonah Pod Not supported at all as this proposal is absurd:
Originally by: EVE ONLINE USER AND CHARACTER NAME POLICY 1.c. EVE Online subscribers are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of their account information. (...) Therefore, account holders are strongly urged not to share accounts or account information with others.
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Originally by: EVE ONLINE USER AND CHARACTER NAME POLICY 1.e. Usernames cannot be changed; however, subscribers are urged to change account passwords at regular intervals as a precautionary measure.
Policies can be changed too, that's just words and phrases. Brute force hacking of EVE accounts is on the rise, and regular passwords changes isn't sufficient now.
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Zormaka Brutus
Supalayian
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Posted - 2010.02.11 07:52:00 -
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Edited by: Zormaka Brutus on 11/02/2010 07:53:57
Originally by: Jonah Pod In addition, you're obviously not aware of the technical and legal implementation details.
It's not a technical proposal, just a request.
Originally by: Jonah Pod This in turn leads to additional development efforts whenever changes have to be applied to the technical implementation.
All moderns operating systems offers users accounts renaming since users are identified by their IDs and not by their names. I hope EVE is not more complicated than that in the way users accounts are handled.
A lot of corporations and public agencies have regular account renaming policies for high security accounts. That's not new, and not unusual.
It's just a security feature, without any impact on the game mechanics.
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Zormaka Brutus
Supalayian
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Posted - 2010.02.11 14:05:00 -
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Edited by: Zormaka Brutus on 11/02/2010 14:06:09 We talk about accounts named used in more than one service, including EVE. Even the EVE account is used outside the game in multiple places : test server, forum login, account management login, evelopedia login...
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