Uhh... congratulations? http://xkcd.com/538/
(Also not to be one of "those guys" [not that you seem to mind] but $550 in a steam account isn't anything worth drooling over. A quick glance at http://www.steamcalculator.com/ shows me that I have double that in my steam account, and I'm not going to go through the trouble of spoofing my MAC address - really that's just starting to get a bit.... full of one's importance.) On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Aaron "DJ Zyrphon" Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > I would have just said "if it is sent to spam, it's spam" or "there's no > such thing as a VAC admin and a Valve staff member will not randomly ask > for your password" or just plain old "don't be an idiot and share your > password." Honestly, you are just boasting rather than complaining. No one > cares if you own lemmings or TMNT on Steam just so you can flaunt your > successes. No one wants to know about your 6 servers or your 5 accounts. We > all just want to protect our property. Everything you said was inspiring, > maybe, but not influential. PLEASE don't post about security again, you're > all spamming my inbox. People who are truly concerned are exempt from this, > but the rest who just bitch about change should go play a different game on > a different platform. > > This is my first and last time complaining. Hope you all enjoyed it. :D > > Sent from my MOTOBLUR™ smartphone on AT&T > > -----Original message----- > From: Kdog <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, Jan 23, 2012 03:10:19 GMT+00:00 > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] hlds_linux Digest, Vol 47, Issue 48 > > I've never liked STEAM GUARD, especially having it forced on all of my > accounts without me knowing. I have 5 accounts due to buying two platinum > packs way back in 1997. Out of all five of my steam accounts, I never once > noticed that STEAM GUARD had been installed, much less activated, and I > play > and run 6 game servers. > > I use random generated passwords from " https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm"; > these passwords are truely random and based on entrapy, (not pseudo > random). > the only way you're getting you're account hijacked is if you're lazy and > or > dumb, and use a stupid password, Or you get a virus from someone who realy > wants to harvest you'rte steam account. Not likely, because there's a lot > of > other information/files that are much more valuable then a STEAM account to > someone who can hack you're PC. I disabled STEAM GUARD on all of my > accounts > and will most likely never use it on any of them. One of my accounts is > worth over $550. > > EVEN IF ONE OF YOU had the ability to hijack my account using some sort of > Winxp exploit, you would have to know my IP address. > Thats why I will reset it (by spoofing my mac address) after sending this > message to the list, so that you wont be able to check the email headers to > see my IP. > I will also change the name that I post under on this list. You just have > to > be smart, if you're not, then you get whats coming to you. That has always > been the way of the net and will get even more so as time goes on. > > Mark my words, due to cyber terrorism, one day you will have to take a test > in order to own a PC that connects to the WWW. > I think you should have to do that now just to be called a human being. > :Peace > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 12:00 PM > Subject: hlds_linux Digest, Vol 47, Issue 48 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:35:46 +0000 > > From: Yuki <[email protected]> > > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > > <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Another high profile trader/admin hijacked. > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > What reasoning is behind this? If someone wants to disable it, let them > > disable it. It's their fault if they get jacked and obviously it wasn't > > worth a few seconds of their time. Why sacrifice choice for... nothing? > > Sure, maybe it should be on "ALWAYS" for you, so leave it on? > > > > On 22/01/2012 19:33, [email protected] wrote: > >> I think steam guard should be on ALWAYS, theres no point to disable > >> it. It just take 2 minutes to enable a new computer so shoulnt be an > >> option to be able to disable it. Just my opinion... > >>> SteamGuard can be disabled entirely from a trusted computer without > >>> *any* notification or hassle. > >>> Don't like this. > > End of hlds_linux Digest, Vol 47, Issue 48 > > ****************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
