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The founder of Steam asked for his account to be hacked. 13 years later, no one has been able to, and their access codes are known.

Steam is a platform known worldwide for giving us the option to buy thousands of games to run on our Windows, macOS or even Linux computers. Its founder, Gabe Newell, issued a great challenge to all people who had knowledge in computing: that They will try to hack your own Steam account to find out what he had in his library.

13 years after this challenge, Gabe Newell’s account remains a big mystery for all those people who dream of watching what a figure as iconic as this one plays. But Gabe even provided the necessary facilities to access Steam: his username and password were completely public.

Gabe Newell trusts Steam Guard with tests in hand

The rest is simple. Gabe’s username is [email protected] and the password is MoolyFTW, as he himself made public at CeBIT in 2011. With this data he was asked to try to hack his Steam account, something that a priori is really simple. The only condition was that no one could access your corporate email associated with Steam.

But although it may seem very simple, this challenge was launched along with the ‘obstacle’ that exists to achieve it, that is Steam Guard. The two-step authentication system promised to make the platform much more secure, and that is why the company’s founder placed all his trust in the system he had presented. With this activated, this challenge of hacking it was launched. Something that has been complicated.

Thirteen years have passed and no unauthorized access to this Steam account has been reported, making Steam Guard have proven to work really well. The only problem it has (and that Newell recognized) resides in the associated email accounts. And by being able to access them, you will be able to bypass Steam’s security system. Although this is something that happens indirectly.

Obviously, security systems have been increasing since 2011 with the inclusion of the two-factor authentication system or the configuration of external trusted devices such as a mobile phone. But this has not caused confidence in Guard to be withdrawn by having the challenge active and as a reward knowing the inside of this account that right now remains completely private. Whether anyone will be able to achieve it in the coming years is a mystery, but without a doubt whoever achieves it will be a great milestone in the world of the internet.

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Sims 4: Being asked for a selfie

How do you get asked for a selfie in The Sims 4? How can you encourage another Sim to ask your Sim for a selfie? This might be the question asked by one or other Sims 4 player who has purchased the “Become Famous” expansion and is currently in the process of developing his Sim into a star. On the way to becoming a star you have to fulfill various goals, among other things, and one of the goals is to be asked for a selfie. Even if the task is actually quite easy to complete, there will certainly be a few other players besides us who are stuck with this task. In this short guide we’ll show you how you can be asked for a selfie by another Sim.

Being asked for a selfie

There are different ways you can complete the task in “Sims 4 Get Famous”. The easiest and quickest way to complete the task and be asked for a selfie is to simply host a meet and greet. Before you can organize a meet and greet, you must have already done a lot to become known and collected fame stars. To be more precise, you have to be at least a 3-star celebrity before you can host an event like this in Meet&Greet and invite people.

Alternatively, you will probably be randomly asked for a selfie when you are in public or famous places with the celebrity Sim. Unfortunately, the latter never worked for us, so we could only complete the task via the meet and greet.

Host a meet and greet

The question now remains, how can you organize a meet and greet in Sims 4? With the appropriate number of fame stars, all you have to do is pick up your cell phone and plan an event using the “Social” app. On the day of the event you will meet some other Sims and with a bit of luck they will ask for a selfie. In our case, we didn’t have to trigger the action ourselves, but the task was simply completed automatically after a certain amount of time during the Meet&Greet.