This One Word Kills Your Steam Account

Steam is the ultimate games launcher. Its got the legendary steam summer sales that exploit your wallet for gabens profit! Its got a great amount of community guides and forums for gamers to discuss in. And best of all you have your profile that you can use to flex to all the other steam users just how much of a pro gamer you are!

Now what if there was an issue that allowed you to destroy a steam account! And what if all it took to delete a steam account was one word! What is that one word and how can you protect yourself from it? Well lets find out as trust me Steam is perfectly balanced with no exploits!

What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience or I suppose as today is an mmo game asmongold.

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Wanna know a secret?
00:07 - Welcome to the exploit!
00:30 - One Forbidden Word...
02:27 - Why does this happen?
03:55 - Can we break CS:GO?
04:55 - The BIG Implications
07:31 - Let's fix this, Steam

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title: STEAM IS PERFECTLY BALANCED WITH NO EXPLOITS - One Word Kills Your Steam Account

#steam #glitch #exploit

[Elektrobear]

I spend every day in awe at the fact that you somehow turned bug reporting into a highly successful career path

[gagecameron]

“Get banned on steam with just one word”
Is Spiff about to have a “gamer moment”?

[xanthirus]

The proper way to get this fixed is to trick streamers and esports players into doing it, they will get valve to show a little hussle

[uploadsnstuff]

Developers around the world shitting bricks every time Spiff drops a new video, in case it means they have to pull an all-nighter.

[samvimes]

I guess this means the people who run Akamai are hardcore Anglicans who support a theocracy

[SenileOtaku]

My guess is it was a "test" name for software development, something they **thought** would be obscure and long enough that no one would actually use it. Something they could use to trigger a function under test. And here you went and broke it for them. Now they're going to have to change it to something harder to type like (which would become a problem if someone were quoting the lyrics from Mitchie M's "Ai Dee").

[niziggz]

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a perfectly balanced word with no exploits.

[Skilliard]

As a dev I was almost certain it would be some sort of reserved word like "NULL", I'm speechless as how this word could break an account

[DJdoppIer]

This reminds me of the story where a guy used a banking app, changed one of his account names to an emoji, and then got a call from his bank saying that he had crashed the bank's entire server system.

[damienmcgirl]

it raises the bigger point, how many secret account bombs are there? like what if theres a word in a specific language that does the same thing but no one uses it?

[YingwuUsagiri]

Well damn. Spiff found the option in the settings to turn Steam into the Epic launcher.

[darkstars]

It's not Akamai blocking it. They don't block things by default. But the Akamai customer (Valve in this case) has configured a blocklist for their Akamai traffic.

[Jason-fvrg]

As a software engineer for over 20 years, I know it's common to use metasyntactic words ("foo", "baz" etc) and other absurdities when creating test data, testing configurations and that kind of thing. I've used antidisestablishmentarianism myself a few times as a test route or config value. I'm guessing one of Akamai's engineers had deployed some new packet filter and used anti23m somewhere, forgot to remove their test configuration and this happened.

[raimondthefool]

Damn Spiffing Brit is apparently a Level 17 Wizard and found the real life version of Power Word Kill.

[IAmPercentCarbon]

This is 100% someone's test string from a long time ago, hardcoded into the Akamai CDN software, to prove that string-blocking worked

[asseenontv]

It's likely that you can be kicked from matches, but many games utilize your steam profile to enforce bans, so you may be immune to being banned.

[thespiffingbrit]

*Hey trust me bro setting your ID To is an Easter egg*

Yes I say server when I mean database sorry not sorry <3

EDIT: 3 hours later and it's fixed!!!

[mechanicalmonk]

Comments: oh look the spiffing brit figured out a new bug and reason

Spif: literally just read a forum post

[BamassacreGaming]

Ever since the summer sale steam glitch, whenever I see a spiff steam video I click asap

[benhaggerty]

This dude needs to make his own game, full of intentional bugs. I'd love to hear this voice pop up when I go out of bounds, calling me a bad little nugget and telling me to drink Yorkshire tea. I'd pay full price for that game.