A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Why so? Well in order to test out their new Steam Guard security technology, Gabe Newell of Valve has decided to give out his username and password to everyone. Try it yourself, his username is gaben@valvesoftware.com and his password is moolyftw.
...and I challenge all Giant Bomb users to post their threads in the appropriate forum and not lump everything into General Discussion. I think the Gabe Newell thing might be easier.
I gave my password away a week ago because I had one really stupid moment of weakness (And hacker sites look IDENTICAL, in every way to the actual steam site.) but since my email was verified and whatnot its all good. The steam guard thing would help even more. Im glad they're adding that.
Tell that to the guy that worked his way into Valve's internal network and resided there for months without anyone noticing...and then stole Half Life 2.
" Tell that to the guy that worked his way into Valve's internal network and resided there for months without anyone noticing...and then stole Half Life 2. "
" I gave my password away a week ago because I had one really stupid moment of weakness (And hacker sites look IDENTICAL, in every way to the actual steam site.) but since my email was verified and whatnot its all good. The steam guard thing would help even more. "
Yeah, I fell for one o' them traps once. Embarrassing when I think about it now, considering it had .ru or something at the end.
@Paulrus: did the same a while ago, when they were first starting to make them sires, was really pissed off because the link was sent by someone i knew, sorted it out though using a seriael number from a disc copy of a steam game i had.
Tell that to the guy that worked his way into Valve's internal network and resided there for months without anyone noticing...and then stole Half Life 2.
" I gave my password away a week ago because I had one really stupid moment of weakness (And hacker sites look IDENTICAL, in every way to the actual steam site.) but since my email was verified and whatnot its all good. The steam guard thing would help even more. Im glad they're adding that. "
Never act on an email claiming your account is going to bed banned until your account is actually banned.
According to this, IPT only adds a six digit number to the password, which means that it shouldn't be all that hard to crack if you already have the username and password, unless of course there are some technical details involved that that page fails to mention.
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