Who Is Breaking Into My Steam Account
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@scottalanmiller I'll take a stab at that.
Security is something that we all need to start taking much more seriously. I'm guessing that someone high up in Steam probably had their account hacked. They decided that didn't want those kinds of issues at Steam, so here we are.
Sadly I feel that 2FA is something that should be pretty much anywhere on the web today in places that can at least financially damage you, if not worse.
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I wanted to also add, it's only through places like Google and Steam that we will see the eventual mass adoption and acceptance of things like 2FA.
People don't want to be inconvenienced by these silly things - they don't understand how vulnerable they really are. We hear about hundreds of thousands if not millions of people being hacked, or often more correctly being socially engineered. Things like 2FA will dramatically reduce the number of incidents.
Why aren't banks doing it? Because they are still running on last century's tech. Sure a few that Scott has worked on/for might have some updated tech, but many don't. They are using ancient systems that can't handle newer options.
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Yeah steam offered me 2FA, I haven't gotten around to it, but should.
I think the bigger concern (from steam) is the threat of someone getting into your account, and gifting a ton of expensive games.
Obviously this would be traceable, but difficult to prove that "You" didn't gift those items.
