Valve literally told the guy who spread the news on Twitter that they do not use Twillo as a SMS 2FA provider at all: https://twitter.com/MellowOnline1/status/1922458687316074640

Good on TechRadar for actually bothering to mention BleepingComputer’s article about it, but they still didn’t mention where the news originated from.

It all began in this LinkedIn post, which wrongfully claimed that the “leak” was coming from Twillo (Also funny is that this is an AI company): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/underdark-ai_cybersecurity-databreach-steam-activity-7327022917370703872-JqN3/

Then the Twitter guy got involved in it, then the “news” sites ran off with what the guy on Twitter said.

Lemme just quote this insightful comment in Steam subreddit as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1kmeoqo/steam_doesnt_use_twillo_no_need_to_change/ms9n1xx/

To clarify why changing your passwords is basically pointless

1. Steam does not use Twillo for its MFA implementation. Twillo doesnt store the keys for the MFA implementation.
2. Twillo doesn’t store passwords, meaning even if you assume Twillo was breached, it has no passwords to leak.
3. Twillo only has a centralized MFA app similar to Google Authenticator. Again this does NOT STORE PASSWORDS
4. If Twillo was compromised, the only possible vector would be an SMS hijacking attack, and that’s IF Steam uses Twillo as its SMS intermediary
5. If we assume #4 then, which is a stretch, CHANGING YOUR PASSWORD IS POINTLESS. Its attacking the SMS network. You can change your password every other minute. The attacker can simply generate and SMS code and take over your account that way. Your password is pointless in this scenario
6. If you are ‘paranoid’ and want to do something ‘actually useful’ remove your phone number from your account, which still again makes a LOT of assumptions above everything tl;dr changing your password is pointless, remove your phone number if you are ‘paranoid’

Change your passwords if you want to, but there is no need to panic.

Btw, selling 89 MILLION Steam accounts’ data for just 5000$? Really???

Like legit, the guy hates Ataturk’s guts, yet these idiots claim that he is a Kemalist.

I want what they are smoking. Must be some pretty good shit.

Ah yes, the guy who had no ill will towards anybody, tried to unify people to the best of his ability, and provided cheaper food for the poor… is a Nazi!

Holy shit, the sheer stupidity needed to come up with such a take!

“AI is a tool when it comes to AI art”

I find that rather dumb. Because tools are made to help people. You use a hammer to nail things, for example. You don’t leave the hammer to do all the nailing by itself. If your only involvement there is just with your prompt, then you didn’t do anything, the computer did. This would be like saying “I commissioned a drawing from this artist and told them what to do, therefore I made this drawing and this artist is a tool”.

More like Hector Martin Do Not Cause Drama Challenge: Literally Impossible

Freawayland

Deltarune in 64 tomorrows!

I too have installed Win11 Pro several times on computers, captain obvious. I know you can do that now.

I am asking that how did you reach to the conclusion that they won’t remove it in later builds from the article itself.

It doesn’t state anything of the sort in the article. Where did you read that?

There is none of them, because there is absolutely nothing connecting the former to latter. Since Neowin stated it themselves, the burden of proof lies entirely on them and they literally cannot provide any.

To quote the “article”:

While it’s doubtful you’ll see ads in KDE’s core applications, it would be possible for distributions that wish to further monetize their work to fork these applications, placing ads in them.

Neowin is the web site where their writers can stupidly claim that Qt getting an advertisement module means that KDE will have ads in their apps soon.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220119103026/https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/

Stop linking to them.

It comes from Terry A. Davis’s description of CIA, FBI and the like: “They glow in the dark”

I feel like as long as there is money to be gained from it (be it via clicks or whatever), these people will stay.

So you gotta, in video game terms, “hit the boss on its weakpoint”.

What also grinds my gears is that one guy in there who ban evaded twice, everyone else knows who they are, yet they still remain on the forums to this day. If that doesn’t tell anybody that that site has a serious moderation problem, I don’t know what will.

This is all entirely Michael’s fault because he refuses to have anything resembling of a moderation.

Use adblockers. Never give him any of your precious money. He doesn’t deserve a single penny of it.

Edit: Fun fact: Karol also stopped visiting Phoronix forums a fair bit of time ago. GEE, I wonder what caused it to happen?

Edit 2: That particular forum post is now loginwalled LMFAO

The Unix Haters Handbook was so real for that rm rant.

But of course, there is an Emacs command to do that.

Good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly!

I’ve read this in EmpLemon’s voice

I haven’t tested it but it should work. OldUnreal’s patches are backwards compatible.

IIRC it has been 10 years since Tim Sweeney talked about open sourcing UE1. I don’t think it is gonna happen anytime soon, sadly.

At least we still have Surreal Engine.

Considering the OldUnreal team still has access to the source code for these two games, and develop patches for them to this day, I find it, thankfully, extremely unlikely!