Remove steam-login name from the interface

[Ancient Oldie]

It's too easy to accidentally expose your login name when playing in a "public" place, or streaming. If you pull up the steam overlay and goto the community, your loginname is exposed in the interface.

I suggest Steam changes this to a "My Account" button without a username in it.

Do not share your account login information with anyone

source: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1266-OAFV-8478#beware

[Snapjak]

Get a skin that changes the login name to the profile name.

And in case you're logging in on say a cyber cafe PC, I just would never do that. If you don't control the PC, don't use it for anything sensitive to begin with.


That is not to say I wouldn't support this. Those are just work-arounds until this ever happens. If it ever happens.

[BloodShed]

View -> Small Mode

Problem solved.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Steam skins do that.

But that part in the KB article is about what you do. You streaming your account is out of Valve's hands. That was completely up to you to do.

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by Snapjak:

Get a skin that changes the login name to the profile name.

And in case you're logging in on say a cyber cafe PC, I just would never do that. If you don't control the PC, don't use it for anything sensitive to begin with.


That is not to say I wouldn't support this. Those are just work-arounds until this ever happens. If it ever happens.

Not everybody knows how to change the skin. There are people that only have the possibility to play in public places. It could also happen if you go to a LAN. "Public places" is a bit more than just the internet café around the corner.

It's design that could easily be changed and would improve security.

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

View -> Small Mode

Problem solved.

That's not working if you pull up the community in steam overlay.

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Steam skins do that.

But that part in the KB article is about what you do. You streaming your account is out of Valve's hands. That was completely up to you to do.

:qr:

Accidental exposure could easily be prevented this way.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Try this...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1236599060

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Try this...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1236599060

:qr:

It's kind of crazy that millions of users need to fix it themselves with a custom skin (I wonder how many people can find that, and are able to fix it in a few minutes).

A big company like Steam should design its interface to be "Secure by default"

//edit: this would also need admin rights on a computer (at least on windows) because a default user-account has no permissions to write / change in the program files folders.

[Snapjak]

Realistically though, with the security measures Valve has put in place it's of little use knowing a username.

You still need the password, and the email address/password if using email guard or access to the phone if using mobile auth.

If someone has none of that enabled and are using their account in public places and/or streaming, it is 100% their own fault if something happens.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Ancient Oldie:

//edit: this would also need admin rights on a computer (at least on windows) because a default user-account has no permissions to write / change in the program files folders.

If you installed Steam in the Program Files folder, sure.

Edit: Let's just wait for the new UI whenever they finish that to see if they address this. It has only been in the last few years that more users are streaming on their PCs. Last client UI was ~9(?) years ago.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Ancient Oldie:

Originally posted by Snapjak:

Get a skin that changes the login name to the profile name.

And in case you're logging in on say a cyber cafe PC, I just would never do that. If you don't control the PC, don't use it for anything sensitive to begin with.


That is not to say I wouldn't support this. Those are just work-arounds until this ever happens. If it ever happens.

Not everybody knows how to change the skin.

They can learn. It's really easy.

There are people that only have the possibility to play in public places.

Irrelevant if you follow the first piece of advice. Use a skin.

It could also happen if you go to a LAN. "Public places" is a bit more than just the internet café around the corner.

Skins. they hide your public login.. Even better that, since you can simply ask the admin at the place to install such a skin and set it as the default for all the terminals.

It's design that could easily be changed and would improve security.

Not really

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Ancient Oldie:

//edit: this would also need admin rights on a computer (at least on windows) because a default user-account has no permissions to write / change in the program files folders.

If you installed Steam in the Program Files folder, sure.

Edit: Let's just wait for the new UI whenever they finish that to see if they address this. It has only been in the last few years that more users are streaming on their PCs. Last client UI was ~9(?) years ago.

:qr:

99.9% click next-next-finish on installing something. Yeah, might be something better in the new (far future) client.

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by Snapjak:

Realistically though, with the security measures Valve has put in place it's of little use knowing a username.

You still need the password, and the email address/password if using email guard or access to the phone if using mobile auth.

If someone has none of that enabled and are using their account in public places and/or streaming, it is 100% their own fault if something happens.

Minimizing possible user faults is a big part of security.

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by Ancient Oldie:

Not everybody knows how to change the skin.

They can learn. It's really easy.

Computer literacy is still way behind.

There are people that only have the possibility to play in public places.

Irrelevant if you follow the first piece of advice. Use a skin.

Does steam end users to this possibility when they create an account?
NO

It could also happen if you go to a LAN. "Public places" is a bit more than just the internet café around the corner.

Skins. they hide your public login.. Even better that, since you can simply ask the admin at the place to install such a skin and set it as the default for all the terminals.

It's design that could easily be changed and would improve security.

Not really

Minimizing possible user mistakes = improving security.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Ancient Oldie:

Originally posted by Start_Running:

They can learn. It's really easy.

Computer literacy is still way behind.

You could make the same arguments for numeracy and literacy.

Irrelevant if you follow the first piece of advice. Use a skin.

Does steam end users to this possibility when they create an account?
NO
[/quote]
There is an option to change skins. You can access this while configuring the client. 'Nuff said.

Skins. they hide your public login.. Even better that, since you can simply ask the admin at the place to install such a skin and set it as the default for all the terminals.


Not really

Minimizing possible user mistakes = improving security.

Uhm again... how is this an issue of user mistake?
Those that have an issue can choose to hide it with a skin, or if they are concerned about such at a netcafe, they can ask the admins there to make it the default. The first is something that can easily be done on your own machince and is something that you can easily ask to be done on a public terminal.

Not like it matters to the admins. if they wanted your user name and pass they'd just install a keylogger on the terminal.