How come the key system didn't have passwords? (POLL)

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Ipquarx:
>starts up blockland

Please enter your key.

ok
(enters key)

To ensure the safety of this account, please enter the password you chose when you registered this key.

*sigh*, okay.
(enters password)

To ensure you are not a bot, please enter the verification code shown in the ridiculously distorted image below.

Is that a 5 or an S???

(five tries later)

Thank you for logging in to Blockland, that game where you build stuff.

ah, I can finally play the ga-
We see you're playing on a new computer today, to ensure fair use of the account, please enter the verification code we've emailed to you.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Altiris:

--- Quote from: Ipquarx on October 06, 2012, 07:19:06 PM ---ah, I can finally play the ga-
We see you're playing on a new computer today, to ensure fair use of the account, please enter the verification code we've emailed to you.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

--- End quote ---

I hate it when Steam does this.

Wynd_Fox:
You can disable that on Steam. :/

This sounds silly. It would be a safe in a considerably easier to break into safe.

Lugnut:
i doubt this would make much of a difference. any method used to steal the key could also theoretically be used to steal the password

Altiris:

--- Quote from: Lugnut on October 06, 2012, 07:27:09 PM ---i doubt this would make much of a difference. any method used to steal the key could also theoretically be used to steal the password

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Yeah you're right. Is there currently a way to "reset" your key if a ton of people are using it? Lets say somehow someone got your key and a ton of people are using it, is there to fix this? Im just wondering how the key system works. I think it does log IP addresses for each key.

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