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Originally Posted by billybeartku2
email log in instead of the screen name log in please, email log in would provide higher security as well.
Hi,
We considered the possibility of allowing different login names to your account, but decided against it.
Making your login ID different to your screenname will make no significant enhancement to your account's security because someone knowing your password is not a gradual process - either they can login, or they can't. In that sense, it's a binary decision - it's either insecure or it isn't. Knowing half the login information does not mean that someone is able to access half your account, since it is "all or nothing".
If a player is able to deduce your password (either because you told them, because they were able to socially engineer something about you, because you have a keylogger on your PC, or some other reason) then they are also going to be able to do the same thing to your account name, email address, or any other piece of accessible information about you. Consequently, we don't think that having a secret account name will increase the security of your account - anyone who can compromise your password will also be able to compromise your login name (whether it be user-selected or an email address) using the same method.
However, the real solution to this problem is to generate authentication hurdles that cannot be socially engineered (or easily keylogged) in this fashion - which is why we have introduced the PokerStars PIN (this can be enabled on your account now by request to
security@pokerstars.com) and are in the process of introducing a RSA Security Token. We expect that we'll be able to distribute the RSA Security Token more widely over the coming couple of months.
We've listened to players who want increased account security, and we're working to deliver it.
Sincerely,
Michael J
PokerStars Game Security Team