: Re: Feedback on technical blog post I've recently composed a blog post about World of Warcraft Authenticators and would love for some feedback as per the quality of writing. Obviously no matter how

@Murray165

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Is it easy to follow?

I didn't really find this paragraph to be very clear.

So if I was somehow able to obtain someones log-in code as above, and I knew what its separate components were. I could just take off the first 4 digits (1237) and substitute in the current time whenever I wanted to generate a verified code.

Also, I wasn't sure why you had the scare quotes around synchronize.

When you first receive your device you must "synchronise" your online account with the serial no

You generally have to enter at least one or two codes in a row in order to synchronize the authenticator, because it uses a time based function, rather than the actual date and time (it updates every 30 seconds in reality), and the server needs to determine where you are in the sequence of valid serial numbers. So it is actually synchronizing something and as such doesn't need the scare quotes.

You also have a few single-sentence paragraphs which don't seem to convey a complete thought you might consider combining, for instance the one beginning "To mitigate this. . ."

I did enjoy reading it, aside from the middle where the information seemed to be quite disjoint, and it does have the potential to be a great article after some work.

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