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Steam Bug Shows You Other Users' Account Details (kotaku.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Steam game distribution platform is suffering from a particularly bad bug right now. If you log in and try to look at your account details, you're shown the details of another user's account — seemingly picked at random. This includes email address, last 4 digits of a phone number, whether SteamGuard (their two-factor authentication) is enabled, and the last 2 digits of an associated credit card. If you play a game, Steam will show you as being logged in as somebody else while in that game. Many users are being shown pages in other languages, as they are mistaken for players in different regions. This bug follows an apparent DDoS attack that took the service down for several hours. The bug doesn't seem to allow people to purchase games using a different account. That's good, though that means most, perhaps all players, are unable to buy games on Christmas during Steam's huge Winter Sale.
You fool! This is the Combine's first preinvasion tactic!
Disorient, Divide and Conquer. It's right there in the G-Man's playbook, clear as crystal!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
And that is why Linux is so much safer: my steam hasn't been working since the nvidia update over a month ago. Everything Linux does is a security feature :3
Don't get too upset. He graduated from high school with Alanis Morissette. Evidently, the class to graduate the year before them thought they were too self centered so for the senior prank, they tore every page in the dictionaries out that defined any word starting with the letter i. Some seniors glued copies of other pages defining words like team, you, them and so on in their place. Some seniors drew pictures of spiders and stick figures in dunce hats thinking they would be funny or something.
Anyways, it left a generation not knowing the definition of Irony (no, it's not something that feels like metal or clothing your mom pressed).