This is good. Hope other sites take notice.

kick ass!

i deserve a free one imo

Before 2009?

Awesome, thank you Stars!

Thank you.

hopefully, sooner the better

Hopefully? If he says it is, it is.

v glad to hear this, ty stars

Awesome! Guess I'm going to have to make good on my promise and move to Stars.

Alex,
Any word on how this will be rolled out to users?
Will it be a fixed cost for all players? Free for all players? Or maybe different for each player based on VIP status? Just wondering if Stars is ready to release any details yet. Thanks.

This is probably fairly obvious to most people who don't work in marketing, but it would be good if this thing did NOT have a large, colorful PokerStars logo on it. I think the ones that my former company passed out had the "drop in any mailbox" thing on them, but nothing that would link them to our company.

The "I lost my security token" thing also needs to be well thought-out. At my old company we picked these things up in person from IT, after showing our company ID. Getting them disabled was an easy call to the help desk. I'll be really POed when some prankster contacts PokerStars and reports my token is lost.

I don't mean to be difficult, but we'll release information in the fullness of time.

I'm sure 2p2 will be amongst the first to hear. You're clearly important stakeholders in this event, and we'll do our best to keep you informed as these things progress.

Regards,

Michael

TY

and thanks to PS for actually implementing this

PS ftw yet again!

I've read the wiki page, can someone explain in simple words how it works?

None of my bank accounts, business or personal, even have this. Nor do the brokarege accounts. And all have online access.

It'd be great, sure, but a lot simpler would be a written guarantee that you are not responsible for withdrawals made by another party.

Besides your password you would have to enter what's on a hardware token that you actually physically have. Sometimes the hardware token shows a changing number that you enter.

wow this would be so amazing to have. the level of safety i would feel would skyrocket. and thats saying alot as i feel like stars is already the safest place to keep money.

here in the netherlands my bank has an online banking feature where you receive a "random reader", a little device where you stick your bank card (the card you use to take money from ATMs) in and you have to type in your PIN and it generates a number that you have to enter on the screen to log into your account. i reckon its a similar thing. and it is basically as good as hack proof imo

Generates random number to make sure that is really you is logging in.

Internet banking usually use this.

When you're about to send money to some one, it asked you you're password AND numbers that generated by this Key generator, again to make sure, that it is really you whose sending the money.

I could imagine when you try to log-in to Stars, Stars client would say something like this


I obv vote "Yes" for this.

best security feature: don't keep a lot of money online

^^ yeah thats exactly how those random readers work Mido

And what if someone has a device like that too and fills in his code at my account?

he would have to also know your password. thus creating an added layer of protection.

only question is what if you lose it or something? this would be a nice way to stop the multi accounters too imo...

I believe that 2 different devices would also give different responses, even when given the same code. So the bad guy would have to steal your device, and know your password and login.