New account security feature now available!

[Panne]

Thanks Nick, this is great!

[loki laufeyson]

this is amazing! i'm so glad this has finally been implemented, thank you!

[Finch Fry]

Heck yeah

[Turo0]

Activated, thank you Nick!

[Nick]

I do have questions: Is there any record of the devices that I have enabled? Like, can I access a list or something similar? Also, do we have an option to revoke rights of a device which has been authorised?

There's not currently a list of devices as we don't record IP address or browser version information along with it. We could extend it to add something like "Android device in Canada" or "iPhone" or "Chrome" in the notification emails though.

Because the list of browsers you've logged into before is the same as the list of browsers you've exposed your password to before (i.e. that browser could have saved or captured your password when you entered it), for account safety I recommend changing your account password instead if you have a device you want to exclude. This automatically removes all trusted devices for you as part of the process.

[Iwein]

This feature is currently opt-in, but our goal is to gradually enable it for all CS accounts.

Once it's been enabled, could you then opt-out? (so that basically it turns from an opt-in to an opt-out feature) or would it become mandatory?

[ShadowKatto]

I’m enabling this right now, thanks Nick!

[BloomyCat]

Done!! Also does this mean I have to re-enter my pass?

[ActualWoodelf]

THANK YOU! This is a fantastic feature! I know a lot of us have been waiting for this and speaking for just myself, it satisfies the kind of feature I was hoping to see. Thanks!

[Regency]

I quite like this new feature. It's worked well for other games/websites. Bit annoying when using a VPN (I have dozens of login locations for Discord), but it is still worth it.

(Not that I'm using a VPN for CS. My school blocked my VPN and I lost the USB stick I put it on.)