Quote Originally Posted by Shodokan View Post
This does not combat against someone hacking your account... blizzard has said that this is simply a backup for the actual authenticator. I asked about using this method for five accounts and they said that it did not protect against keyloggers, spyware etc etc like the hardware authenticator. If someone accesses anything from your computer then you are SOL.
Neither does the normal authenticator. Man in the middle attack, perchance?
Example: you get a trojan/virus... they open your computer into an SSH based proxy and proxy into WoW and empty your account... it's already happened to a few people and was discussed on the official forums.
Then it's your own damn fault for getting the trojan/virus!

And tell me how exactly they'll proxy into wow, I'd really like to hear it out of curiosity.