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  • I’m not sure they’d want the legal hassle.

    As long as Steam allows skins trading these sites will exist. I can’t see them removing this feature from their community because of activity off their platform.

    Locking a trading account and nuking the inventory just means that one site will shut down - the operator will likely just set up a new one and a while bunch of users will be angry at Valve.

    If enough money is at stake Valve might even find themselves sued by the site operators. “Tortious Interference” is what it’s called here.

    If consenting adults enter into agreements outside of Steam, what business is it of Valve’s to interfere?


















  • I don’t think so. Those users had opted in to share information within a certain group. They’ve already accepted the risk of sharing info with someone who might be untrustworthy.

    Plenty of other systems do the same thing. I can share the list of games on my Steam account with my friends - the fact that a hacker might break into one of their accounts and access my data doesn’t mean that this sharing of information is broken by design.

    If you choose to share your secrets with someone, you accept the risk that they may not protect them as well as you do.

    There may be other reasons to criticise 23andMe’s security, but this isn’t a broken design.