How secure is Steam Guard? Valve’s Gabe Newell must think it’s pretty darn airtight, because he posted his Steam account email and password for the world to see during GDC.

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How secure is Steam Guard? Valve’s Gabe Newell must think it’s pretty darn airtight, because he posted his Steam account email and password for the world to see during GDC.

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Steam Guard gets the ultimate test: Gabe Newell makes his password public originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What’s Steam’s “number one support issue” according to Valve’s Gabe Newell? “Account phishing and hijacking,” says the boss. In an effort to combat the theft of digital goods, Valve has announced Steam Guard, a new service that allows users to restrict account management to a specific Intel-powered PC.

Using Intel Identity Protection Technology (IPT), a hardware-based feature available in second generation Intel Core processors, Steam Guard users will be notified whenever a different PC attempts to log into or modify their account settings. This should give Steam users “the account security they need as they purchase more and more digital goods,” said the filthy rich Newell.

Because Steam Guard is hardware-reliant, the service will not be available to all Steam users. Still, Valve’s Doug Lombardi expects “to see widespread adoption of hardware-based security like Intel IPT by other service providers” in the future. “If as a customer you are buying movies, music, games, or digital goods, you want to know that they are more secure than your physical goods.”

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Valve introduces Steam Guard to fight account phishing and hijacking originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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