Could lead to even worse abuse. Steam overlay is logged in to steam. It's been like this forever, there's thing that rely on it staying that way.
Since it is logged into steam it would allow malicious servers to do automatically on their steam accounts. Starting with putting you in a steam community group soon as you join a server without your consent. To using exploits and doing much worse things like say forcing you to leave groups you are an admin of or changing your settings. Ages ago when Steam used IE I reported an exploit able to do these things and valve fixed it. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Cameron Munroe <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > I thought I might just put my 2 cents in, so please don't shoot me. > > > > Here is what the text I received over chat: > > > > This info was taken from a discussion on IRC between SourceMod's Asher > Baker (Asherkin) and Valve's Tony Paloma (Druken_F00l). Asherkin posted it > in a discussion then deleted it, but not before someone quoted it. > And just to make sure it doesn't get lost, I'm also going to quote it here > too. > <Drunken_F00l> so i think we're gonna nuke the info panel > <Drunken_F00l> or at least the ability to send it at arbitrary times > <@asherkin> :| > <@asherkin> why? > <Drunken_F00l> because pinion > <Drunken_F00l> or more like server ops abusing pinion > <@asherkin> thus killing things that have existed forever, like using it > to view stats or to listen to streaming radio > <Drunken_F00l> it sucks that it might break plugins or game modes using it > for legit reasons though > <Drunken_F00l> ya > > > > In any case I think what they will only stop motd after initial connect > thus blocking any abuse by server owners. However I would rather, after > initial connect, to have links opened by the steam overlay browser. This > would first fix the issue of Pinion spamming as the player could quickly > exit out and continue playing there game, not to mention this harms the > said owner that is spamming the Ad during normal game play because of the > required completions, and not being able to hold the session for 30 > seconds. It would also be nicer because you could use this as a simple way > to open radio programs and such, and in new tabs. Thus no longer will radio > be quit out once you type !bp. It could also have the added functionality > of going to a common tab for similar links so if you already had radio > open, and you open radio again you won't be spammed by two radios playing. > > > > Just some thoughts. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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