Again as I stated above. The mitigation was for the standalone Authenticator APP. Not the old keyfobs. Absolutely nothing changed with them save for the same warnings that have gone out for several years that to keep them on when they were past the recommended battery life was a risk.
And while it can be appreciated that you want to assist your friend, they won’t deal with you or you vouching for him. Blizzard has their protocols they have to follow. What they ask for is far from unanswerable. I say that with my original boxes sitting a room away, where they sit on a shelf.
The GMs have to follow the rules laid out for them so that accounts are protected. Period.
