[sldev] [PROPOSAL] IP / Computer Black / White / Greylist and attempted login log.

[Tim Shephard]

Paypal has an RSA token they provide.   I guess we could do RSA token,
but that seems a lot more involved than simply locking to an IP
address.

I know a lot of people who have oodles of L$ in their account would
dearly dearly love this feature.

On 10/2/07, John Hurliman <jhurliman at wsu.edu> wrote:
> Matthew Dowd wrote:
> >
> > > Do most web services provide this feature? Do your banks and credit
> > > cards and brokerage accounts give you this feature? None of mine do,
> > and
> > > I'm curious why these measures are needed for Second Life but not to
> > > manage any other assets over the net.
> >
> > My bank displays the time date and ip of the last
> > successful/unsuccesful logon - but doesn't do whitelisting etc.
> >
> > Matthew
>
> That's because the first time someone setup a whitelist without having
> any idea what an IP address or dynamic IPs were and locked themselves
> out of the account the bank would have to pay someone in tech support to
> walk them through unlocking the account. If you are working on a
> technical solution to a problem and it requires end users to understand
> what an IP address, certificate, or public/private keypair are you
> should stop right there and start over again.
>
> John
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