[MicroBob]

Greg -
as has been mentioned in this thread, there are already sites that require a seperate log-in handle that is completely different from your screen-name at the table.
Bodog, Prima, WilliamHill among others.

Also - not sure what happens when you change your screen-name on Party (they give you the option to do this every 6 mths) but they might have you keep the same log-in name you had before even though your screen-name is different. So this is kind of the same too.


It definitely would keep out some of the less sophisticated hackers which, it seems, is what a lot of these are.


I'm going to repeat that the option to "only allow me to log-in from this computer" should be considered.

Also, if ANYONE attempts to log-in from a different computer while I have that option on then that computer should immediately not be allowed to log-on to ANY account.
Just shut them out.

As it currently stands, I believe some guy can just sit at home and try to log-on to one account after another after another all day long and Stars just lets this person do it continually.
Certainly there are ways to automate such continuous log-in attempts.


Also - to solve the problem of people intentionally locking-out someone's account:
After 5 tries or whatever - That SPECIFIC computer is not allowed to log-on to any account until they clear it up with stars support.


There have to be ways to do this.
And I can't imagine they would be THAT incredibly difficult to implement.

Expensive and time-consuming to add such features?
"BAH!" I SAY!!!!
Some players have thousands of dollars (me), or even tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars (other players who are better than me) on their site.

Stars can spend a little bit to increase the security to protect OUR money.


I also think that increasing the security with such measures could stand a good chance of getting rid of a lot of those hacking headaches and perhaps even end up saving them $$ in the long-run.