Yea. Given the value an Eve account can have, and the insane amount of real world spying and Meta-gaming, I'm really surprised that they haven't added the option of an authenticator to the game. I can think of a couple reasons they might not have which might prevent such a system from getting used for a while.

1. How much do the auth makers charge the game owner? There are server side components to the system, be it software or hardware, and I doubt it is cheap. Judging from the fact that the dongles are insanely cheap, I'm guessing that the real revenue stream for Vasco is on the server side.

2. They aren't available in all the countries that CCP cares about. I know that there are different versions for the US and EU, I'm guessing due to crypto laws or patents. Maybe Vasco's system can't support more than one type, or a large enough percentage of the customer base lives in a country that wouldn't be allowed to buy authenticators, Russia maybe?

Random thoughts.

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