Haha, yeah. Just like the guy who put his Social Security # on the side of a truck and drove through New York. You really need to trust your company to do something so risky. Always remember though that Nothing Is Safe.

This will end well.

I highly doubt Gabe's account actually has anything on it still. He's probably got at least one back-up just in case. Either way, putting a target on your back for all the gaming world to see means the man's got a lot of brass or hubris. I guess time will tell.

This can only end badly...

wait what? they must be testing some sort of new anti-hack program. Edit: I always talk before i listen silly me.

I'm sure there's someone who COULD steal it, but I'm sure that stealing Gabe Newell's steam account is really low on their to do list

Just so long as they can't do anything other than play his games on it, that's fine. It's not like they'd be stealing a physical product.

Nah, all the hackers are too interested in the PS3 and Kinect to really care.

I really hope someone does it just to wipe the smile off his smug face...

If you stole his account, the programmers of steam would be on you like flies on dung.  You wouldn't make it 10 minutes. Also, if its like that, how long does it truly take to log in?  Do i need two hackers and a man holding a magic mirror to get in to my own account if i lose the info? We will see once this is fully implemented.

I dont have a steam account, dont even no what that is

I wonder if he's even good at games...

My point being, stealing his account would give you... what, exactly? Access to his games, maybe... but if you already own the 5-6 games you even want of Steam already anyway, this is kind of dumb.

As much as I like Newell two days from now he is going to post a retraction something along the lines of this: "Do to uunforseen circumstances someone, who shall remain unnamed, was able to hack into my account. I would like to formely congradulate him upon proving that despite this ouccring, Steam is still very safe."

There's only one way he would know that no one could steal his account. HE'S FROM THE FUTURE!

lol i'd laugh if he gets hacked and cries.

I can see where Gabe's coming from. When I installed my new home security system, I made several copies of my house key and gave them to every known criminal I could find, along with my address. You know, to make sure I got my money's worth.

This is all just a distraction to help out Sony from hackers. Gabe's a nice guy.

Thats a real gutsy move Gabe. i hope you know what your doing.

Thats a real gutsy move Gabe. i hope you know what your doing.

I bet he gave the info to a setup account.