Blizzard, makers of the extremely popular World of Warcraft game, now offer a token based authentication scheme to help with account hijacking. Two things strike me about this, first, that this is a freaking crazy world when hijacking WoW accounts is serious enough business to warrant this security and second, that we fundamentally need a better way of asserting identity when a FREAKING VIDEO GAME REQUIRES A TOKEN. I wrote a screed about that here, but I think this accentuates all the more a need for a new end to end method of asserting identity and establishing trust.

~ Joshbw