Jan. 22, 2015, 6:01 a.m.
Might be a good idea to opt out anyway. I would not be surprised in the least if Valve suddenly removed the whitelist, now that they've given us an option to do it ourselves.
From a security standpoint, I cannot imagine that they like giving special access to random IP addresses.
We will disable it. Still figuring out how to make the bots automatically do that.