Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in Source games for 2 years

Re:Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in S... by gsich on Saturday April 10, 2021 @06:38PM (#26765878)

>when playing on high trust-factor accounts, cheating is basically eliminated.

Yes, but this is not a technical fix. You just hope that accounts with more "value" cheat less. Which is true in most cases.

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Re:Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in S... by sodality2 on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:55PM (#26782691)

That's another HUGE issue: stolen accounts are a massive underground market and while your skins can't be stolen usually, the account can be hacked on and get banned. You can get stolen prime accounts for under $5 and high value accounts for very cheap.

Trust does actually work a lot of the time. But you'd think account security would be easy for them to crack down upon.

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