Half-Life 2 Hackers Arrested
 

I'm on the press release mailing list for Valve/Sierra - got this in my inbox from Doug Lombardi today:

[quote="Doug Lombardi":79c99]
ARRESTS MADE IN RELATION TO HALF-LIFE 2 THEFT

Online Community Tracks Down Hackers


June, 10 2004 – Arrests have been made in several countries related to the break-in to Valve’s network, theft of the Half-Life 2 source code, and release of the source code on the Internet.

“Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved,” said Gabe Newell, Valve’s CEO. “It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime.”

Thousands of tips were received related to the criminal activities, with a core group of people who were able to analyze and backtrack from these clues. Subsequent to these individuals being identified, Valve has been working with various national authorities to prepare cases against those involved, leading to these arrests.

“It was very uplifting to see how the community rallied and tracked these people down. Everyone here at Valve is once again reminded of how much we owe to the gaming community,” added Mr. Newell.

For specific details on the arrests, please contact the Northwest Cyber Crime Task Force, Seattle, 206-262-2030.[/quote:79c99]

SO they stole proof that Valve fucking lied to us all....wow score one for the good guyz. I would be more happy to see a corporate ceo get busted for fucking over his employee's then some teen hacker.

they should hire those kids, and help them fix their security problems. gg nubscouts v2.0

i live in seattle.. hmmm

[quote="Short Hand":cec9a]SO they stole proof that Valve fucking lied to us all....wow score one for the good guyz. I would be more happy to see a corporate ceo get busted for fucking over his employee's then some teen hacker.[/quote:cec9a]

Grow up. They broke the law. They arent any kind of Robin Hood - just a couple of punks who wanted to see how l337 their hacking skills were and they fucked over REAL people with REAL jobs.

[quote="TGB!":6b375][quote="Short Hand":6b375]SO they stole proof that Valve fucking lied to us all....wow score one for the good guyz. I would be more happy to see a corporate ceo get busted for fucking over his employee's then some teen hacker.[/quote:6b375]

Grow up. They broke the law. They arent any kind of Robin Hood - just a couple of punks who wanted to see how l337 their hacking skills were and they fucked over REAL people with REAL jobs.[/quote:6b375]

grow up ? how about you stfu ? They blew the hron on Valve's little scam, which came at the cost of many gamers. (not that i was really caring but there are people who were). They just gave valve a flcik in the balls. All i know is Half life 2 has 3 times the hype and 3 times the press after all of this. + tell me please how do you let something as valueble as source code get leaked ? no hacker would be able to get to this shit, let alone would a key component of valve allow the fucking "source code" to go his email account. It was all a publicity stunt and a side track off of the fact they weren;t finished and fucked up. Honestly its such bull shit. Im glad they cost Valve money for scamming the general public. rock:

[quote="Short Hand":6987b][quote="TGB!":6987b][quote="Short Hand":6987b]SO they stole proof that Valve fucking lied to us all....wow score one for the good guyz. I would be more happy to see a corporate ceo get busted for fucking over his employee's then some teen hacker.[/quote:6987b]

Grow up. They broke the law. They arent any kind of Robin Hood - just a couple of punks who wanted to see how l337 their hacking skills were and they fucked over REAL people with REAL jobs.[/quote:6987b]

grow up ? how about you stfu ? They blew the hron on Valve's little scam, which came at the cost of many gamers. (not that i was really caring but there are people who were). They just gave valve a flcik in the balls. All i know is Half life 2 has 3 times the hype and 3 times the press after all of this. + tell me please how do you let something as valueble as source code get leaked ? no hacker would be able to get to this shit, let alone would a key component of valve allow the fucking "source code" to go his email account. It was all a publicity stunt and a side track off of the fact they weren;t finished and fucked up. Honestly its such bull shit. Im glad they cost Valve money for scamming the general public. rock:[/quote:6987b]


LOL? Are you serious? HHAHA......................dotdotdot...

oOo:

uh, I'm a little short on intel in this case.
what is this scam with HL2?

hl2gate!

They delay HL2 so their stocks can grow!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn capitalist pigs! biggrin: Who cares if Valve stretched the truth, they dont ow us a thing.

im sorry im am not smart enough to be a Gay Conservative like you TGB. im so sorry. will you ever forgive me ?

Its thier product, they can release it whenever they want. They dont owe the community anything. If they want to piss off their customers thats fine, but that doesnt mean its ok for someone to steal their ideas, creations and projects.

yup, they finally caught me cool:

I am secretly typing this post from one of my portable devices

Where'd you hide it...your colon? wink: