Rhey wrote:
Blizzard Also wrote:
While we may not allow spouse or other family to use your account, we have no method of proving you're sharing your account unless IP address anomalies occur. This makes it extremely difficult to enforce.
well, they didn't really -say- that, but how many people do you know who got banned because they were sharing their account with their brother?
Why do Americans insist on proving they can ignore the rules? Is the government repressing you so much?
And when you go and make absolute claims like "have no method of proving you're sharing your account unless IP address anomalies occur", I have to call BS.
The technology is well established that could detect differences in how you interact with the computer. I am also sure it's not worth the effort and bad press. I was reading about this idea back in the 1980s, you think that maybe people that care (Banks, Retailers, the Government) might have put some effort into this idea? A few seconds with Google yielding me scores of papers like this one:
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The authors present a thorough and useful description of their work on the use of keystroke latencies (the intervals between successive keystrokes) to authenticate the identity of a computer user. Their approach requires each user to enter four strings at logon: identifier, password or personal identification number (PIN), first name, and last name. The experiments employed relatively few people with many shared characteristics: they were �university students or staff� and between the ages of 20 [and] 45.� With this limited population, they were able to achieve simultaneous error rates of 1 percent false acceptances, representing successful impersonations, and 7 percent false rejections, representing unsuccessful accurate claims of identity. The authors say, A false alarm rate of 5 percent could well be acceptable since it would be nothing more than a nuisance in that a genuine user would, on the average, fail to get access to the system 1 out of 20 attempts.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=75577.75582
So they are saying they can tell Person A from Person B 19 times out of 20 based on a single dialog. Imagine how freaking easy it would be based on how you play the game.. there are so many ways you do things differently from your girlfriend.
And before you flame me, I am not telling you not to share.. I am not telling you Blizzard will figure out that you and your girlfriend share the account on off hours. I don't care. You're an adult, you get to decide for you.
But, again, it's this BS that "the Man can't tell!". BULL PUCKY. *IF* they wanted to, they could 100% tell. Privacy is dead in the modern world. Get over it.
Edited, Dec 23rd 2006 8:24am by Felicite