Security Comes First, Right?
Account theft has been around since Steam began, but with the introduction of Steam Trading, the problem has increased twenty-fold as the number one complaint from our users. Having your account stolen, and your items traded away, is a terrible experience. Once an account was compromised, the items would be quickly cleaned out. They’d then be traded again and again, eventually being sold to an innocent user. Looking at their account activity, it wasn’t too hard to figure out what happened, but undoing it was harder because we don’t want to take things away from innocent users.
Many gamers don’t feel to make their gaming account secure. Most people think why would hackers would hack a gaming account? Well if you know what you are doing, with Steam trading, you can actually make some money out of the games. Which support trading.
With the new Steam trade hold system, valve acts as a middleman, and trades are not completed instantly. If you want to trade instantly, you can use Steam Guard Mobile app, which does the verification process.
Two-factor authorization is the use of a separate device to confirm your identity. The security of this system is based on moving that step from your PC to a device a hacker can’t access, such as your smartphone.
“Once again, we’re fully aware that this is a tradeoff with the potential for a large impact on trading. Any time we put security steps in between user actions and their desired results, we’re making it more difficult to use our products. Unfortunately, this is one of those times where we feel like we’re forced to insert a step or shut it all down. Asking users to enter a password to log into their account isn’t something we spend much time thinking about today, but it’s much the same principle – a security cost we pay to ensure the system is able to function”
