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Steam Bug Shows You Other Users' Account Details (kotaku.com) 92

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 25, 2015 @05:28PM from the somebody's-having-a-bad-christmas dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Steam game distribution platform is suffering from a particularly bad bug right now. If you log in and try to look at your account details, you're shown the details of another user's account — seemingly picked at random. This includes email address, last 4 digits of a phone number, whether SteamGuard (their two-factor authentication) is enabled, and the last 2 digits of an associated credit card. If you play a game, Steam will show you as being logged in as somebody else while in that game. Many users are being shown pages in other languages, as they are mistaken for players in different regions. This bug follows an apparent DDoS attack that took the service down for several hours. The bug doesn't seem to allow people to purchase games using a different account. That's good, though that means most, perhaps all players, are unable to buy games on Christmas during Steam's huge Winter Sale.

Comment Re:Or inceasing the cost of ammo? (Score 1) 1388

by AbNo on Thursday January 10, 2013 @12:45AM (#42542597) Attached to: Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings

A lead mold is not that expensive, and scrap lead is easy to acquire.

Comment Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership (Score 2) 1232

by AbNo on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:45PM (#42389063) Attached to: New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map

Tell that to the woman hiding from her abusive ex-husband who has already tried to kill her before. If she purchased to a gun to try and defend herself from him, now the Times has a database of exactly where she lives. Tell that to the criminal looking to steal a gun. He now has a checklist of houses he can watch to find out who lives alone, what their schedule is, when they leave, etc. Tell that to the undercover cop and his loving family. If someone's looking for revenge on someone against the guy that arrested him/their brother, there's a good chance that same last name is on that map somewhere.

Submission + - Playmate Photo From Apollo 12 Up For Auction (rrauction.com)

Submitted by Kilrah_il on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @08:01AM

Kilrah_il writes: When the Apollo 12 crew left Earth for a trip to the Moon, they did not know that the ground crew hid a surprise in one of the command module locker: a calendar photo of Playboy Playmate DeDe Lind. Now this card is offered for auction, after being kept in the personal collection of command module pilot Richard Gordon, which added the following memo: "This is to certify that the accompanying 4.5” x 6.25” cue carddid, indeed, accompany me on my trip to the moon in the Command Module Yankee Clipper aboard the historic Apollo 12 lunar landing missionThis cue card, which flew with me to the moon, has been in my sole possession and part of my personal space collection since my return from the moon in 1969 aboard America’s second lunar landing mission, and it remains one of the all-time greatest Apollo era astronaut ‘Gotcha’s!"
For those interested, minimum bid is $1000.

Comment Mail order rental... (Score 1) 672

by AbNo on Thursday June 17, 2004 @01:33PM (#9454138) Attached to: Yet Another Degrading DVD

It seems another rental store alternative may benefit from this: Mail-order rental.

Subscribe (there's that pay-per-view price model again), they mail you X number of DVD-D's a month. Saves them on return postage.

Could be an interesting pricings scheme, too...

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