You say this but my steam account was hacked via my email account, my email account (yahoo) was accessed but didn’t register anyone “logging in”, which means whoever accessed it somehow did it without using the username+password, i.e. via “session spoofing” or some similar method. My email account uses a unique…

The problem is that while you practice good security measures on your email accounts their are a million fucktards who don’t. Which is evident by the amount of hacked accounts steam had to deal with.

Yea I only have it because valve put a metaphorical gun to my head. I used to go pretty hard in csgo betting and you have to trade gun skins pretty fast sometimes and waiting for Valves email codes which could take up to an hour were killing me and then they added the three day waiting if you weren’t using the…

Steam two-factor authentication almost broke my account. When I set it up it gave me this as a recovery code.

Steam has a lot of f2p games and there are a lot of free wi-fi networks around.

I am only using the mobile authenticator because it was already impossible to trade ANYTHING without it.

Me as well. I tell Steam to remember this system but it forgets it as soon as the day after and forces me to reauthorize my computers(s).

Here’s my problem with the two-step security: my Steam account never stays signed in if it restarts for ANYTHING (even if I have the “remember password” thing checked). This means that just to log in after an update or a restart of my computer, I have to go and find my phone and mess with two-step security. I’m really…