I'll go farther, It fucking sucks :p Time to change my password <grumbles> Thanks OP for the heads up. +1

Out of curiosity, what did the service do to your beautiful PC machine?

Excellent link to Arstechnica, and while reading some comments I came across a site called Diceware. To create passwords like this though, especially truly random ones, you NEED a password manager. That worries me to no end tbh. What if THAT gets cracked and an attacker gets access to the whole array of passwords? That would be far worse than losing a password at site X. I also saw something there about a problem with 1Password, which apparently is the most-used password manager. Furthermore, people who use Tor for anonymity are more likely to get picked up by the worldwide surveillance programs of NSA. Yay! :(

Boned if you do, boned if you don't.

It's good that I used a lot of fake information and atypical password.

Really? It is still in other games from Ubisoft. E.g. Might and Magic: Heroes VI you'll still lose all your progress in Single-Player when the game decided that the server isn't there. And sometimes you can't play for days, because they decided that it is time for the server to rest a little.

Disclaimer: I know that there is a watered down offline-version. But no one with the right mind is playing that one.

I think the last time I used my Ubisoft account was 2 years ago for Heroes of Might and Magic Kingdoms

As a Baker, I'm not seeing any problem here.

anyone any ideas how to check if i have a account? there may have been something somewhere i had to create an account for at sometime? ><

So the big problem isn't so much "bad passwords" its more about "password reuse". 1password and other managers help you store passwords so you don't need to reuse them, so the vast majority of logins can be forgotten. The important ones like banking work etc you remember the old fashioned way and make them properly strong e.g. by using diceware.

TBH this hacking in general is giving me the shits. Seriously, i have to think of yet another bloody unique password. Ugh!

Would this be a strong passphrase? :D

Obviously it's a sentence so not ideal, but at least it's long and easy to remember! :D

Don't worry, parallel universes don't count.

It is? Can't say, as I don't have Heroes VI. As far as I know however, there's no always-on DRM on it. I did hear about problems with it since launch, from buggy over missing content / keys to crashing and what not, but no always-on DRM.

So I pretty much doubt that there's an always-on DRM in it, especially since it's nowhere mentioned. UPlay is a necessity yes, but that's just the client and has nothing to do with always-on. So, you're sure about always-on DRM and that it's not just their cloud saving?

I can't say I'm versed in how encryption works in the technical side of things but the chances of that happening is low as long as you keep a really strong master password to open it. With LastPass, an online password manager I use, you can disable what countries you can login from and some other stuff to increase security too.

With KeePass you can also add another layer of security by requiring to use a keyfile that essentially holds a unique password. To open your list of passwords you would need a master password plus the keyfile or it won't budge at all so a brute force attack is next to useless unless you have the key file. Now keeping that key file just adds another problem, you'll have to keep it safe but also alive since if you accidentally deletes it or lose it you won't get in either. Keeping copies work as long as you can hide them.

We used to. Stick the Sunday dinner on the cooker, sod off to the park for a few hours.
Come back, and all the property was still in their places. Nothing disturbed, missing, defaced or broken.


Those were the days.

Before selfish, greedy, self-entitled little pricks decided burglary was a better use of their oh-so-precious time instead of actual work.

These days, not so much. Double locks, deadbolts, chains, and an alarm system that signals 999 (911 for Yanks) immediately.