I have mixed feelings about the issue - I'm 100% for authenticators, to start with, they work.

But, I'm done with WoW.com. There is NO confirmation that what they posted is true, and if it's not, they've stirred up a hornet's nest that did'nt need to be. MMO Champions will post info they get from channels, for patch releases and data mining files, but the Aholes at WoW.com just threw their "source' under the bus, if this is true - and if they figure out who it was, that person is absolutely fired. They are posting about internal Blizzard conversations and policies, and that's just not cool - if they think of themselves as any kind of journalist, they just blackballed themselves from the good graces of Blizzard, and they may have issues moving forward getting support or goodies from Bliz.

There's also a few things that don't add up...the GMs in the Customer Service Forum have been saying that while the time for restorations is backed up, they're claiming there's been no spike in the number of account thefts. So...what's going on? What are they spending all their time on? Why are they offering the Care Package, if there's no spike in thefts, which requires more specialist time...either Blizz is keeping the real damage under wraps to not give any kind of info to the bad guys...or they're lying.

If they ship Cata with an Authenticator, and require it - awesome. The days of account theft (and selling/trading/sharing) are over...so we'll see a new massive wave of bots and exploiters, so the gold farmer's have inventory to sell. Could be good...could be bad.

I like the idea of the authenticators, because it will put a lot of farmers/thieves out of business. I just don't care for WoW.com's blowing the issue up when it's not even been put forward by Blizz. And yes, Blizz could be behind the link, to gauge the response of the playerbase, but Wow.com has been posting a lot of garbage lately, like how they "discovered" (ie. took from another site) that there's an exploit people are doing with billing, and now they've pointed it out to all the kiddies out there who will want to try it now.

Wow.com needs to think a LOT more before they post. They are becoming a liability, and honestly, the talent left the site when Turpster left. The rest are hacks who post nonsense and nothing of value.

Wait until and IF Blizzard talks about this. Until then, it's all hearsay and rumor - and I hope the Blizzard lawyers sue and subpeona WoW.com to get their source.