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http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/07/steam-guard-now-in-beta/

Valve’s new account security system, Steam Guard, is now in beta and available to anyone who wants to give it a try. Once you’ve verified your email address you can tie your Steam account to your computer. Any attempts to login for the first time on a computer elsewhere will need a verification code, which will be sent to your email address. To access the beta, select Steam Guard from the beta participation section in your Steam account settings.

Head of Valve, Gabe Newell, is so confident in the new system that he recently gave out his username and password and challenged the public to gain access to his account. It’s [email protected], and moolyftw, if you want to give it a go.

its not like this helps to the idiots who have lost accounts before

only thing this improves is the fact that even if ur acc details get stolen, nobody will be able to login and get the acc vac banned before u regain control by using e-mail recovery

edit: or should i say, doesnt help to idiots who dont verify acc by email

Quoted from pykow

But what is gonna happen if you join at more then one PC ?

I use 2 laptops and my game pc almost everyweek.
Anytime when i switch to another system, i have to check my mail :S

Quoted from toasty.

Any attempts to login for the FIRST time on a computer elsewhere will need a verification code.

tbf if anyone is losing their steam account details cause he clicks some familyfriends.exe then that’d be already enough to steal his email-passwords as well, so in any case, he’d be fucked.

Quoted from AnimaL

its not like this helps to the idiots who have lost accounts before

only thing this improves is the fact that even if ur acc details get stolen, nobody will be able to login and get the acc vac banned before u regain control by using e-mail recovery

edit: or should i say, doesnt help to idiots who dont verify acc by email

in what way did this add to the article being linked? thank you cpt obvious

only thing this improves is the fact that even if ur acc details get stolen, nobody will be able to login

yeah, worthless feature

Quoted from d1ck j0nes

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in what way did this add to the article being linked? thank you cpt obvious

in what way did this topic add the one already written on steam news?

stop mad if u bad

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Sounds great. An extra way of protection. Do i need to do something else then just join the current beta?