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Seeing Other People's Steam Accounts: The Christmas Caching Catastrophe
- Published_at:2015-12-26
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
- tags: tomscott tom scott exploit steam caching cache varnish steampowered bug
- description: On Christmas Day, someone at Steam changed a setting and brought down their whole games platform. I wasn't expecting to do a video this Christmas, but when enough people tweet me, it turns out I can be convinced... (I should note: while Steam have officially confirmed "a caching problem", I've got no privileged information about the specifics. It's possible (but unlikely, I think) this was a misconfiguration at Akamai, or a bizarre server bug that happened to exactly match a much more likely caching misconfiguration error!)
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