# The Steam Dossier > PhishDestroy’s public investigation into Steam authentication, enforcement, account access and the economy of virtual items. Page-specific guides link to the complete published text, evidence and downloadable data. Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/ ## Investigation files - [Rainbow. Reichstag. Baton. — Taylor Wessing dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/taylor_wessing/llms.txt): Eight chapters, the forensic and historical disclaimer, fourteen sources, and the complete author-supplied manuscript. - [Ten days to stop. Seven years later, at G2’s booth. — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/major_sponsorships/llms.txt): The Steam Dossier follows G2 and CSGORoll at the Paris Major, Valve’s 2016 demands, session-token instructions, sponsorship intermediaries and an unblocked Link Filter response. - [The card economy — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/card_economy/llms.txt): A Steam card farm is a customer: $5.00 per account, 13,876 card-issuing games and 694,673 finished sets sitting in public bot stock. - [Die Kartenwirtschaft – Das Steam-Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/card_economy_de/llms.txt): A Steam card farm is a customer: $5.00 per account, 13,876 card-issuing games and 694,673 finished sets sitting in public bot stock. - [One item, two price systems — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/elite_skins/llms.txt): Price-ceiling register: 419 CS2 item categories above Valve's ~$1,800 listing cap, with cross-marketplace corroboration and evidential grading. - [The census Valve won't publish — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit/llms.txt): Public census of Steam trade, community and VAC bans, cross-checked against SteamRep and marketplace data to expose enforcement gaps. - [Die Zählung, die Valve nicht veröffentlicht — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit_de/llms.txt): Öffentliche Zählung der Steam-Handels-, Community- und VAC-Sperren mit Abgleich gegen SteamRep und Marktdaten. - [Fragment map · Authors & signatures — PhishDestroy](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/fragment_map/llms.txt): The Steam Dossier numbered materials: original titles, unique Agent authors, PDFs, JSONs and detached signatures. - [The Steam Dossier: rules, routes and accountability](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/index/llms.txt): Public forensic investigation of Steam OpenID authentication, Valve enforcement, account data access and the market-ceiling economy. - [Account access & accountability — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/investigation_part2/llms.txt): Part II of The Steam Dossier: account access, outsourced support and the demand for accountable enforcement. - [Their terms, your rights — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/legal_analysis/llms.txt): Legal and economic analysis of the Steam Subscriber Agreement, arbitration clause, automated enforcement and market rules. - [License · Rights · Disclaimer — PhishDestroy](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/license_disclaimer/llms.txt): PhishDestroy licence, rights waiver and disclaimer for The Steam Dossier, with an open letter to Valve. - [The Major showcase — Skins, stars & demand | The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/major_skins/llms.txt): PhishDestroy's dataset of seven Valve-backed Counter-Strike Majors: 491 maps, 960,770 inspect records and 203.66 player-hours of skinned-item inspection. Explore teams, percentages, gloves and the economy behind the stage. - [One infrastructure, two markets — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/market_economics/llms.txt): How one Steam infrastructure produces two markets: the capped Community Market and the off-Steam venues where above-cap items trade. - [Open Manifesto — Public Notice · The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/open_manifesto/llms.txt): Open manifesto and public notice from the PhishDestroy team: forensic evidence of defective PDF redaction, Steam client network anomalies, and immutable IPFS data preservation. Investigation publishes 14 October 2026, unconditionally. - [FORENSIC AUDIT ACT: Valve Steam Web API Ecosystem & Commercial Exploitation (Ref: VAL-REG-2026-09)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/regulatory_act_print/llms.txt): - [Security Timeline — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/security_timeline/llms.txt): Timeline of Valve security incidents, policy updates and enforcement actions from 2018 to 2026, with evidential grading. - [The atlas of what Steam cannot carry — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas/llms.txt): Price-ladder atlas of 30,266 CS2 item categories across five marketplaces, banded by cheapest ask, with item renders and grading. - [Follow the recorded connections — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/social_graph/llms.txt): Interactive graph of developer networks and social overlaps across the Steam ecosystem: 3,435 nodes and 4,551 edges. - [An Open Response to the Source: On Radical Transparency, Methodology, and the Real State of Affairs — PhishDestroy](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/license_disclaimer/source_1_response/llms.txt): An open response to Source 1 on the Steam Dossier's transparency, methodology, evidence choices and public licence. - [Rules versus responses — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_enforcement_evidence/llms.txt): Static evidence archive mapping Steam support responses, account-compromise records and enforcement outcomes. - [Inspect the sources — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_evidence_archive/llms.txt): Searchable archive of 16,319 preserved Steam complaints, support tickets and enforcement records, each with provenance and hash. - [Steam Support Refusals & Canned Responses Archive — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/support_canned_refusals/llms.txt): Forensic exhibition of 1,505 verified Steam Support rejections, automated closures and trade-redirection scam records with 137 screenshots. - [Valve Scandals Registry — The Steam Dossier](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/valve_scandals_registry/llms.txt): 160 sourced records of Valve support failures, censored threads, platform flaws and documented incidents, each linked to its source. ## Translations - [ar](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/ar/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [de](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/de/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [es](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/es/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [fr](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/fr/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [hi](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/hi/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [id](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/id/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [it](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/it/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [ja](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/ja/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [ko](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/ko/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [nl](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/nl/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [pl](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/pl/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [pt](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/pt/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [tr](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/tr/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [uk](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/uk/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [vi](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/vi/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. - [zh](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/zh/llms.txt): 16 translated pages. ## Complete collection - [Full source-language collection](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/llms-full.txt) - [Machine-readable file manifest](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/ai/manifest.json) - [HTML sitemap](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/sitemap.xml)