This is more of a security issue more than anything, and I'd love to see it put into effect in one of 3 ways, and it would help users by letting them know that they may have come under attack.
This would be a log of faulty or bad login attempts on your account. I know Gaia has the three strikes in 15 minutes and your out method, but fact of the matter is that is just a small brick wall. A determined hacker can just try again in 15 minutes, or time the attack attempts so that they never get blocked out, or even more insidious, they can use a large number of proxies to do rapid attempts, never using a single IP twice.
Anyways back on track, by Gaia logging the failed attempts for the user and reporting them to the user it allows the user themselves to know they've been attacked, or are under attack, thus allowing them to either transfer the majority of their belongings and gold to a safe account (A mule that isn't too pretty looking.) or to temporarily change their passwords into something alot stronger (Like changing it from Naruto1987 to something more like Ab1indC47c4n7s33).
Now the ways I thought of that it could be implemented was this: 1-A section on the successful login page that has the number of failed login attempts. 2-A little speech bubble type deal like when there are announcements or you have a new PM saying something like, "# failed login attempts" 3-A PM is sent to you, and an Email sent to your account notifying you of the failed login attempt.
Personally I like #2 since it allows you to see the attacks happen if your on, though #3 would do that plus allow you to get notified even if you haven't logged in for a few days. So something between #2 and #3 would probably be best...like it appearing as the Speech bubble and being sent to your email.
Anyways the point of it is to forewarn people of attacks on their account. It may just be me...but I don't like not being aware of the attack until its too late, besides its almost like Gaia is saying "Don't worry about the mean hackers we'll handle everything." And then going off to have a coffee and donut break like a second rate security officer >.>
Just to say this is what gave me the Idea:
Idea Source
Its from Nationstates, and yes that is one of my nations, I have three, none on the un: Slothil Steam_Valley Akademeia
Liata_Firebreeze · Sat Aug 02, 2008 @ 05:54am · 0 Comments |