Share this story If you were watching Steam over the weekend, you may have been among those to notice go up on the popular digital storefront. The 'sports-puzzle game that evolves around one mysterious cutscene' wasn't a new low-point in Steam's toward letting games onto the service.

Dsw Piano 0.1.3. Instead, it was the result of a now-patched exploit that let developers sneak games onto Steam without Valve's approval. A teenage British Web developer outlined the hacking process earlier this week.

Watching paint dry — How a hacker snuck a game onto Steam without Valve’s knowledge 'Watch paint dry' exploited now-patched Steamworks vulnerability. Rar Password Recovery 5.0 Full Version Free Download.

Even before being fixed, this exploit wasn't available to any random Internet user, though, since it relied on access to the Steamworks Developer Program. With that access secured (through unstated means), Ruby dove into the HTML for the Steamworks backend to look for weak points. By forcing an 'editor ID' variable passed through the page to '1' (which Ruby assumed would be 'someone who might work at Valve'), Ruby was able to access a new form that revealed the form data he needed to get an 'approved' value for Steam Trading Cards, a first step in making his game look legitimate. From there, actually getting around the usual review queue Valve uses to approve potential Steam games was relatively easy. By passing his browser's now faux-authentic to SteamWorks' well-documented 'ReleaseGame' function, Ruby got the service to accept 'Watch paint dry' without the knowledge or approval of anyone at Valve.