Suggestion Logins for Apps? (i.e. World of Warcraft)

Tarkeybear

Hi folks,



So far, my Mac world of Warcraft account has not gotten hacked.

I don't know if this is because I use a Mac or dumb luck.

My wife and now are copying and pasting passwords and login IDs from a textedit file, but it would be sweet if 1Password could work with apps like World of Warcraft to bypass keyloggers (for folks who aren't using a cut&paste login technique.



I don't know if this would be real tough to integrate into a proprietary app like warcraft?



Blizzard entertainment is having to do so much account maintenance for my online pals (PC users ;-) who are getting hacked, that they might be open to discussion with a way to provide an automated login feature.



One way might be to open 1 password, then choose a new section (app login?) which would list the application. If there are multiple accounts for that app (my wife has two World of Warcraft accounts for herself, and then there is mine) the user might be able to select the log-on ID, then click a button to launch and logon to the app while auto loading the password.



I don't know if such a system could be hacked and stolen from the outside?

Having WOW accounts might make hacking 1 password more tempting to the hacking community...



best regards,

Tark

[Deleted User]

Hi Tark,



First of all, welcome to the forums, thanks for posting your feature request, we always appreciate hearing form our users.



At the moment, 1Password only interacts with your web browsers for filling forms online. The Mac OS X keychain is the standard for Mac developers to have their applications store sensitive data such as usernames and passwords, and is still incredibly secure. We don't want to replace this functionality, at least not right now. We want 1Password to be the lingua franca for how users interact with forms on the internet. You can store a record of your applications' usernames and passwords in 1Password, but you would need to copy and paste the passwords manually.



I do understand this would be useful for accounts for things like WoW, but I'm not sure this is something we'd be looking into at this particular point in time.



Sorry I can't give you a better answer.

brenty

I would love to see this happen, but I can understand how integrating 1Password to work with native 3rd party apps could be difficult -- and even more so for cross-platform software like WoW.



As far as securing your WoW account, using an [url="https://us.battle.net/account/management/authenticator.html"]authenticator[/url] of some kind with your account gives you a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_password"]one-time password[/url] as an addition factor of authentication to further secure your account. They have a keychain version, a software version for mobile devices, and now a dial-in method as well. If you haven't already done so, take advantage of this. The minor inconvenience of typing in an additional code to log in far outweighs the hassle of having your account compromised.



But if you're here, I probably didn't have to tell you that... <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />