Hyperstrike

Yes and no.
A brute force breakin would be essentially a "one and done".

Something more subtle, and left to lie for a period of time with subtle alterations, could compromise backups.

Still, I'm not horrendously worried.

Decent summary. One I was too lazy to go into.

Kudos!

Tell me. Do you understand the word "subsidized"?

As for it being one of the four MMOs that you sub to that doesn't offer *Insert Here*. How do you want me to answer this?

And the fact that they need more customer support intervention when the authenticator fails?

Actually so was I. I apparently hit the wrong "quote".

It's called "Unauthorized access".

You have a right to access those systems via approve channels (the game client). You do NOT have the right to access those systems via non-approved channels (grabbing root on a console, grabbing a remote desktop, accessing the raw filesystem, etc).

People can get real jail time for this sort of thing.
And if they can prove malicious intent, the sentence just goes up.

I'm going to come down on the side of "don't want".

Thank you for reporting that you play Rift. Another piece of crucial data in my social engineering database...

It's always a matter of time. Security is NOT about "keeping people out". It's about being enough of a hassle to get past that would-be hax0rz move on to greener pastures and easier cracks.

Because it's an enormous money pit for something like an MMO. It gives you a false sense of security. And it's an enormous hassle. The physical fobs don't keep 100% perfect sync with the server. So when they fall out of sync, you can't sign on. This leads to massive customer service overhead. I've worked for companies with only a couple hundred of the things out there and it's a pain. Think about doing it for 10-100,000 people.

Quite simply, you couldn't pay me enough.

Not to mention that such devices are NOT inexpensive.

Dongles are not the way.

Also, if you're thinking about hard-coded dongles, fuhgeddaboudit. If it's a static value, it can be read, copied, and replayed. Leaving you no more secure than you were before.

You essentially have several things protecting your account right now.

Your NCSoft Master Account and the two-factor authentication there (see, you already have it).

Your game account which, ideally, shouldn't be the same as your master account name. Moreover, it should have a different password than your master account as well.

Actually, yes. It's still security. Remember, the vast majority of hacks don't happen on hard targets where the user has no information. The things required to do stuff like that are spectacularly obvious and trigger massive alarms to tell your network operations that "something REALLY bad is happening".

While obscurity is not GREAT security, it's simply one of myriad tools used to provide security.

You're forgetting the wear leveling algorithms built into the controller, so you avoid massive amounts of write cycles to the same cells every time. Significantly prolonging the usable lifetime of the media.

Most of the MLCs are tens of thousands of write cycles per cell. Aggregated across tends or hundreds of gigabytes and you're talking years of use from a drive.

Dude. You are ALL sorts of AWESOME!

/em hatsoff

Whereas the iTrials raiding is essentially a broken system that's a legacy of the current dev team.

Thanks for clarifying!

Sorry, but his original post is simply a lousy "LRN2PLAY". Nothing more.

He's presuming HE is a font of wisdom when it comes to playing the game and the people who disagree with him are imbeciles who don't know how.

That's pretty much the textbook for elitism.

As opposed to what? The poorly veiled "LRN2PLAY" that is asking me "How much have you done this?"

Suffice it to say I have done these trials. I've done them enough to know I don't really want to do them anymore. ANY of them. Maybe once in a blue moon, when I'm drunk and belligerent or something.

Why should I? If I claim to never have done them, it's "Then you don't know what you're talking about.

If I have, then it's "You just suck. Learn to play. You don't know what you're talking about."

Why even get into it?

As if I give a damn about your "credit". Some yapping head on a forum, hiding behind anonymity. Whatever drivel you choose to believe about me is your problem. Not mine.

Apparently *I* am not the one who fails to understand binary.

Basically go to Fort Trident in Atlas Park.

You can convert 50 merits and 20 million a day into 1 Alignment merit. You have enough Reward merits to generate 14 Alignment merits.


The Dam/End and Dam/Rech are available for 1 AM each.
The Triple is available for 2.
The Acc/Dam isn't on the list though and would need to be bought with Reward Merits or on the market.
The Acc/Dam is available for 50 Reward Merits (effectively slightly less than the cost of one AM).


You don't REALLY need to get three sets of it all at once. You have enough to comfortably afford 2. If you're low on available cash you can burn 2 RMs for something like a LOTG +Rech and sell it. That should net you the spare cash.

100 Reward Merits: 2x Acc/Dam
100 RM+40 Mil Inf: 2x Dam/End
100 RM+40 Mil Inf: 2x Dam/Rech
200 RM+80 Mil Inf: 2x Triple
100 RM+40 Mil Inf: LOTG +Rech for sale.

Or you can spend 4 days farming tip missions on low diff to build up 2 AMs for the LOTG to get you started.

Or do a few SSA. WWD 1 is STUPIDLY survivable. Especially for an exemp'ed L50.

You should be able to accomodate a GTX 560 Ti quite nicely.
My current rig is a Q8300 with a 560 Ti and it screams!
My recommendation is also to go EVGA. The new release of nVidia products is just around the corner and, if you start feeling envy for next-gen products, the Step-Up program will get you up whatever comes next for a miniscule amount more.

Also, maybe look at an SSD. Won't really add to performance (per-se). But any portions of zone loading that are disk-I/O intensive will SCREAM with a nice SSD.

As has already been said, these trials aren't "hard". They're binary. Bring the prescribed X, Y and Z and you're fine. Don't and you fail.

Why don't we just run down a straight hall and beat up everything in the way. Then we win when we get to the end with our holy trinity of Healer, DPS and Tank?

Fit that cookie-cutter baby!

That too. But what I'm talking about are all the powers players have that essentially wash out all but the craziest, most obvious displays.

So the answer to being able to see the crap is to...turn our powers off?

I like the idea of being more powerful. Great. Fine and wonderful.
But not at the expense of having all my other abilities become utterly meaningless.

At this point, several trials are now "if you don't bring X, Y, and Z, you fail".

**** that noise.

I already detest endlessly grinding trials. Now I have to endlessly grind them just to eventually build the "right" stuff to complete it successfully? Or be a leech on everyone else? Yeah...

Exactly.

Moreover, with all the ground-effect powers out there, it's ridiculous.

*@&*^%$^&)#*

Sorry. I just threw up in my mouth a little...

True, but saying "assless" is so much more salacious!