Valve has officially announced Steam Guard, which is a new form ?user rights management? in the words of Gabe Newell. There were all sorts of rumors about it yesterday, but now that Valve has made the official announcement it?s safe there?s no real reason to panic. The service is more about keeping your Steam account secure and out of the hands of evildoers than it is about punishing you for having the audacity to play games on the PC. Valve isn?t Ubisoft.
Steam Guard work similarly. You establish one computer as your home base. ?This is my primary gaming computer,? that kind of thing. Whenever you try to log into your account from a different computer, Steam automatically sends a randomly generated password to your e-mail account. In order to log in from this different computer you?ll need your account name, regular password, and also the randomly generated one that?s sent to your e-mail account at time of login.
This makes it all the more difficult for someone to log into your Steam account without your authorization.
This makes it all the more difficult for someone to log into your Steam account without your authorization.
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