Please clear your blacklist!

[moody]

Lots of us were banned for RMT spam because our accounts were hacked, eventually we will be back online. My request is that you frequently clear your blacklist, especially if the name is a normal name and not just a jumble of characters.
There is no point keeping these names on your blacklist because they all get banned quick so you shouldn't see that name ever spam again.

The problem is that the name generator also generates realistic names. While I feel sorry for you that your account was compromised, I'm more than willing to take the chance that I've blacklisted 6 real players if it blocks 30+ gil sellers.

You (and many others) seem to forget phishing and how rife that is.

You can't blame people for being gullible and falling for a phishing scam, then following the dodgy links and entering crucial information. These people are clearly legit players, if a little on the dim witted side - they don't all deserve to be written off as "RMT/Botting scum - you deserve my /blist!"

Yes, I can blame them. It's easy. [x] didn't bother looking at links before entering information no company should need to ask for. That would be their fault. I'm totally blaming them.

But they're not perfect. Which is all I'm saying. You can be the safest guy in the world with strong AV, tokens and stupid long passwords changed daily, but you'll still get done in by a determined hacker. Just a matter of time.
I still think using Email addresses for Usernames was a bad bad idea. Usernames or logins were literally an extra password a potential hackbot needed to get right.
@Rydin,
No, maybe they're not brute forcing *all* the accounts, but i would wager many accounts are lost to it.

The reason brute force attacks are not reliably effective is that you can put a time sensitive authentication code on the account. If you're performing a brute force attack against an account with an even reasonably secure non-dictionary password the authenticator code should change before a Brute Force can reasonably work out that combination.

[Rydin]

To be fair, 'hacking' these days is done via bots that run every combination of letters and numbers currently usable by computers, doesn't matter how 'strong' your password is, its only a matter of time before a bot comes up with the right string to let it in.

I don't think they're brute force hacking peoples accounts... thats so inefficient...

[Taika]

I was just thinking about this yesterday. Would be nice to get your account back and find out the whole server has blacklisted you.

[RyuujinZERO]

If someone was dumb enough to get hacked in the first place, do they have anything to say worth my time?

/elitist jerk mode :B

[Jinko]

If someone was dumb enough to get hacked in the first place, do they have anything to say worth my time?

/elitist jerk mode :B

This would be super funny if you get hacked now.

[amnie]

If someone was dumb enough to get hacked in the first place, do they have anything to say worth my time?

/elitist jerk mode :B

guess who just ended up on my blacklist :]

[Nasibihc]

especially if the name is a normal name and not just a jumble of characters.

So I saw this RMT called William Shakespeare.. how do YOU know it's not the REAL DEAL and only an RMT?!

There is no point keeping these names on your blacklist because they all get banned quick

Well.. to delete or not to delete?, that is the question. I think he's still conducting his plays in Uldah. The play has been going on for weeks I guess. I didn't enjoy the play at all, huge success maybe? I threw a rotten tomato at him.

[Bahram]

So I saw this RMT called William Shakespeare.. how do YOU know it's not the REAL DEAL and only an RMT?!

I remember this! I was so enthused that I was being sold gil by the Bard of Avon himself.

I almost asked him what is was like being dead, but then I figured, this is Shakespeare and he probably gets that question all the time.

[OsirisJones]

let's get off our high horses and acknowledge that it's not impossible for people to get hacked. sony got hacked, microsoft got hacked, blizzard got hacked but i'm guessing all of you still play their games right? or are they too stupid? guess that makes you even dumber for giving them your payment info etc.

[Waliel]

I regularly clear my blacklist of "old" entries. I think I only have 6 or 7 in there right now, and I've yet to see my chat get spammed with offers when I remove people.