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http://business.time.com/2012/09/27/why-j-k-rowlings-new-ebook-is-17-99/

Well let's be fair.. The publishers set the price - not the author.

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The plot doesn't appeal to me at all (and dear god... THE COVER!!), so I won't be. :P

I know someone who appealed a ban and it is still pending like a year later.... :(

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Peter can probably look into this at some point, but right now we're in a new apartment that doesn't have broadband set up yet so all we have is shit internet from our mobile wifi hotspots XD So sit tight and hopefully once we have a good internet connection he can look into it.

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Sorry. :( I just tested this myself on Chrome and it worked fine. I can check on Firefox/IE/Safari a bit later, but in the meantime, did you try it on Chrome? If so, does it work?

Treat recovery questions as additional passwords (random characters that don't answer the question). Then either write the answers down in real life, or store them in an encrypted file/application. Yeah but you shoudlnt have to. A system should be secure enough to stand on its own not rely on 3rd party email providers that DO have 2-step verification or by writing down answers/using a password manager. I agree. They need 2 step verification. I was just explaining how he could utilize the system that we *do* have.

Treat recovery questions as additional passwords (random characters that don't answer the question). Then either write the answers down in real life, or store them in an encrypted file/application.

Yeah I think that option was removed. That was IPB's doing -- not ours (for what it's worth :P).

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While it will cut down on the cases, most people on here are disappointed because this isn't the best security measure to implement (e.g. two step is a lot more foolproof). Also, I haven't heard of anybody losing their RS account because of a big forum hack yet in Runescape. That's because you were inactive around the time Tip.it was hacked last year. There were a lot of older accounts that (stupidly, IMO) had their emails tied to their runescape account/same password/etc. And because their recovery system was still pretty bad then, it didn't take much to hijack another account. I occassionally read the forums when they were hacked, I wasn't fully inactive. And yes, I do realize that some fansites were hijacked, although I did not know of Zybez or Draynor being hacked. I was under the impression that the damage done by the hackers was minimal. Before jumping the gun, have there been any credible reports of users losing their runescape account because of these hackings? I am probably missing a lot of information as I was preoccupied with other things at the time. Sorry in advance if this has been discussed before and I just missed it. Well think of it like this. The hackers got database bumps of multiple huge fan sites, which includes username, e-mail, password hashes (in the case of DI -- plain text passwords) and IP information at the least. Now consider that most of those passwords had low strength/security and that many people use the same passwords on e-mail, fansites, and/or RuneScape. If these people used the same password on the fan sites that they did on RuneScape, that's automatic account access. If they used the same e-mail account on fansites as they did RuneScape, that allowed hackers to try to brute force/recover the e-mail accounts, and then use the e-mail accounts to recover RuneScape accounts. Then consider that everyone and their mother in the hacking world wanted a piece of these databases. People bought the entire database, or individual member information, etc. You can only imagine how many accounts they went after. Now, a lot of those counts were probably old, inactive accounts, so you won't have heard the account owners complaining about it. But a lot of those people were also regular, current players. Not everyone's account was hacked, and not everyone's password hash was cracked (I assume), but even a small portion of a 100k-200k membership database is huge. If you had lurked some hacker forums during the time of the attacks (which I did and I'm sure a lot of other people did), you would have seen just how many people bragged about getting a piece of x database and then recovering y account, etc.

It's not just about what's stored in your cookie cutter profile. It's about the things you've posted *somewhere* at *some point* on your Facebook wall. Somewhere, at some point, maybe your mom commented on a photo saying, "Oh wow, that reminds me of the time I met my husband in Prague!" Or if someone can find you, they can probably find your family quite easily. They can scan through them, figure out who your cousins are, and then note down the ages until they find the oldest. This isn't the case with all people, obviously. But for many, it is. There are a lot of people who don't have "Private" Facebook accounts. There are a lot of people who blindly accept every friend request. There are a lot of people who don't think about what they're saying online, or what their family is saying. There are a lot of people who have their recovery answers out there for the world to see, and dont' even realize it. Which is why my IRL Facebook account and my Runescape FB account don't mix. Not that I'd post "real" answers anyways. If you want to use Facebook with your Runescape account, why not simply set up a dummy Facebook account for your Runescape character? :unsure: I'm not talking about people who use Facebook for RuneScape things. I just mean people wanting to hack your RuneScape account but they need answers to your recovery questions. So they do a lot of research to find your REAL Facebook account. This 'research' can include googling, figuring out your e-mail address, finding out what school you went to, finding that school's Facebook page and then finding people in connection with that school and picking you out of it. And then stalking your Facebook page to farm it for information. People get DOXed all the time. That's one of the biggest ways people steal RuneScape accounts. A large part of that process is just doing online research to farm personal information, and part of that often leads back to Facebook, other social media sites, other online profiles, or any articles that may have included you that can now be found online. It doesn't matter if you 'officially' link those accounts to RuneScape or not. People are still capable of finding them. Of course it helps a lot if you use the same username, e-mail address, avatar, etc. But a lot of people do. I mean, I personally don't use real answers for my recoveries, but I think it's safe to assume that most people in the RuneScape population do. And that leaves them vulnerable.

It's not just about what's stored in your cookie cutter profile. It's about the things you've posted *somewhere* at *some point* on your Facebook wall. Somewhere, at some point, maybe your mom commented on a photo saying, "Oh wow, that reminds me of the time I met my husband in Prague!" Or if someone can find you, they can probably find your family quite easily. They can scan through them, figure out who your cousins are, and then note down the ages until they find the oldest. This isn't the case with all people, obviously. But for many, it is. There are a lot of people who don't have "Private" Facebook accounts. There are a lot of people who blindly accept every friend request. There are a lot of people who don't think about what they're saying online, or what their family is saying. There are a lot of people who have their recovery answers out there for the world to see, and dont' even realize it.

You probably could store the 1Password data on a flash drive. I know you can store it in Dropbox, which allows you to sync your passwords across multiple computers/phones/etc. It's still encrypted and still requires a "master password" to gain access.

There are a lot of applications you can use to encrypt passwords/notes/files on your computer. A good example is 1Password. Indeed and this is what Jagex had to say when I emailed them about it: The funny thing about that is that it's probably not too hard. If your parents are into social media at all, all the person has to do is find your parents on Facebook/whatever (usually easy), and odds are the parent might say where they met their husband/wife.

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About to start reading Midnight City by J. Barton Mitchell. Sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, aliens.. hope it's awesome!

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I know it's possible, but most probably wouldn't. :P

Can't say that I have. :lol: I'm currently reading Don't Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon. It's good so far. Some of the hacking stuff is a little unbelievable (like the "awesome hacker" using a Mac--what awesome hacker would do that??), but I'm really enjoying the thriller/mystery parts of the book!

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