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Kire667
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Kire667

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Account security is only good as your Email pass. Always have a plan B and keep a backup Email attached to your Runescape Email just in case things go south.
But it is nice seeing them offer a free security update without making this cost RuneCoins.

11-Sep-2012 19:48:04 - Last edited on 11-Sep-2012 19:48:19 by Kire667

Sporkyy

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One of the best updates in the past few years! :)
I've never been hacked myself (touch wood) but I've always been quite skeptic about security on my account because you can never quite tell what will happen.
So I'm happy that the security has now been enhanced, this will benefit so many people that have sadly had their account hijacked or are perhaps at risk.

Awesome update and I can't wait to see what else comes along this month!
Thanks,
Mr sporky.
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11-Sep-2012 19:49:20 - Last edited on 11-Sep-2012 19:51:36 by Sporkyy

Transcendent

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Question:
Should players use different questions and answers for different accounts when setting up Jagex Account Guardian if they have more than one account?
I think this would be safer than having one set of questions for all accounts. The problem is, the list of questions to choose from currently is very short making it hard to use different questions for different accounts, and there are several questions players may not want to use because they don't have answers they would easily be able to remember for those questions. For example, someone who has little to no interest in sports might have a hard time naming a favorite sports team if they don't follow sports, or someone might have several favorite sports teams and forget if their answer was for a football team or a basketball team or hockey team. In other words, players need more choices for the questions, and preferably an option to set their own questions. Hi.

11-Sep-2012 19:55:57

Szayel

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@Argarth: The only complaint i can sympathize with are the ones where you can't create your own questions. All the other complaints just screams out "I'M TOO LAZY TO DO THIS!!!!!" *Face palms* If they are too lazy to do something so simple like remember a few questions, what makes you think they aren't lazy enough to write them down somewhere

11-Sep-2012 19:59:43

Crefftwr
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Crefftwr

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good update but it was out like a week ago... why are we hearing about it now?
Still waiting for these "new player kit animations" that will make me stop looking like a gorilla with watermelons down my shirt :/

11-Sep-2012 20:12:19

Egdod

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I was disappointed after reading this news post, as it does not address the flaws of the JAG system that I spotted immediately upon its release. JAG is a good idea, but its implementation has problems, which I will address herein.
> Security question choice is too limited. As many players have already said, the inability to write your own questions drastically limits the security of the entire question system. Personalized security questions are much stronger and they are why my questions, in particular, are so good (I wrote my own questions). With JAG, instead of having to guess or socially engineer both question and answer from the victim, the attacker already has the small pool of possible questions.
> Security questions can never be changed. This is a decent feature that helps enhance your account security -- right up until your account is compromised. If an attacker gains your security questions, then, notwithstanding a PW change, he or she will always have access to your JAG settings. For this simple reason, login credentials that can't be changed are a security risk.
> Jagex won't release the method they use to identify a device; this is essentially security through obscurity. I don't think I'm the only player who wants to know what information Jagex is gathering with the JAG system, how it positively identifies a unique device, and what they do with that information.

11-Sep-2012 20:23:40 - Last edited on 11-Sep-2012 20:24:18 by Egdod

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