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[Accurs3D]

My account has been compromised because I typed my password out in the game.
Some guy on the enemy team said that it'd block out my password, and proceeded to type in all asteriks like so: **********. I figured what the hell and typed out my password into the chat and pressed enter, but it wasn't censored. By the time I realized that it was a clever ruse to phish for my password, it was too late.

Why doesn't this game have such a feature? It's the year 2013!

[Monkey Bone]

epic :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[Kobold]

Have you attempted to use Alt F4 to access third person view? Have you assisted any Nigerian princes?

Edited by Kobold, 21 February 2013 - 02:56 PM.

[Thoummim]

Don't worry your password will be blocked on the forum, you can try.

[Oni Ralas]

Send me your passwords and I'll write you an extension to block any further intrusions.

Plot twist - the thief is the one posting.

[Havok1978]

you "cant" be serious.... and stop licking the glass in the mech cockpit.. its disturbing

[Noth]

I can't find a facepalm pic epic enough so... simply *facepalm*

[xtase]

1. You're a fool.
2. PGI doesn't store your passwords in a way that would let them block it from chat., and either way it would be a vulnerability at best.

[Cebi]

DERP

[deforce]

biggest ***** ever or worlds greatest troll? i am not sure yet.

[Alois Hammer]

Accurs3D, on 21 February 2013 - 02:53 PM, said:

My account has been compromised because I typed my password out in the game.

I think we can safely say we've identified the problem- however, Ron White has asserted that there is no solution.

[Solis Obscuri]

[LogicSol]

Er, in order for the gameclient to block your password, it would need to know your password. If the game client knows your password, then it has it resident in memory.
If the game client has it resident in memory, it is potentially possible to scrape that information.
IIRC your password is only used to authenticate your server connection and then doesn't come into play again.

What you are asking for is fundamentally less secure than how it currently is. Instead I would suggest embracing the idea to never ever type your password in anywhere other than the password box you are trying to log into.

[Accurs3D]

Kobold, on 21 February 2013 - 02:56 PM, said:

Have you attempted to use Alt F4 to access third person view? Have you assisted any Nigerian princes?

I have assisted two Nigerian princes so far, but they have not tripled my initial monetary investment as of yet. Perhaps I didn't donate enough money and they couldn't raise powerful enough armies and were hence summarily executed in an extremely gory manner.

[Dimento Graven]

Hahahaaha[Redacted]
<gasp>
ahahahaha[Redacted]!!!!

Edited by Egomane, 21 February 2013 - 03:27 PM.
Fixed breaking of the forumstructure by reducing the laughter to believable amount

[IceSerpent]

From bash.org:

Quote

<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

...apparently still works like a charm

[urmamasllama]

i believe we have a PEBKaC error

[Uncl Munkeh]

Accurs3D, on 21 February 2013 - 02:53 PM, said:

My account has been compromised because I typed my password out in the game.
Some guy on the enemy team said that it'd block out my password, and proceeded to type in all asteriks like so: **********. I figured what the hell and typed out my password into the chat and pressed enter, but it wasn't censored. By the time I realized that it was a clever ruse to phish for my password, it was too late.

Why doesn't this game have such a feature? It's the year 2013!

I apologize for laughing, but that's funny.

[Yak54]

Accurs3D, on 21 February 2013 - 02:53 PM, said:

My account has been compromised because I typed my password out in the game.
Some guy on the enemy team said that it'd block out my password, and proceeded to type in all asteriks like so: **********. I figured what the hell and typed out my password into the chat and pressed enter, but it wasn't censored. By the time I realized that it was a clever ruse to phish for my password, it was too late.

Why doesn't this game have such a feature? It's the year 2013!

If in fact the story here is 100% true 1) This out ranks Leroy Jenkins on my DA scale. (if you don't know Leroy a quick google will bring him up real fast)
2) You might wanna leave any type of PC/online stuff for the grown ups. I can just imagine you clicking the e-mail from your bank asking for your info and to log in.........
3) Ron White could never describe this lol.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Troll....if he's typing on the forums, he's had time to change his pw.