Valve Interview Helps Reveal Details Of HL2 Code Theft 38
Thanks to The Guardian for its article providing further details on the arrest of the Half-Life 2 code thieves, with Valve's Gabe Newell explaining: "Through conversations with this individual, [we] had convinced him to fly out to us in Seattle for a job interview. The plan was changed so German authorities would do the arrests on German soil." These facts seem to coincide with allegations that the Phatbot trojan writer also stole the Half-Life 2 code, leading to "Axel G"'s arrest in May by German authorities following FBI tips. Although unconfirmed, one can also presume the previously mentioned smoking gun to be an "incriminating information" packed IRC log, revealing the source of the intrusion as the webservers of a wearable computing firm with links to Valve, on a machine likely housed in the same physical location as the Valve offices, explaining the hacker's comments that he gained entry via "a PC in Valve's net, that wasnt directly controlled by Valve."
another_log.txt (Score:5, Informative)
I couldn't get around the lameness filter, so there is a link for as long as the bandwidth holds out.
Re:Maybe I have a skewed sense of ethics... (Score:5, Informative)
Really man, how dumb would you have to be to accept such an offer for an interview? Dude got his just due to greed.
Simple really, move along.
Re:Yeah right. (Score:4, Informative)
I assume you mean SERVERS, since Valve has close to 50 of them serving up Steam content on a regular basis, averaging 110,000 users a day.
There were speedbumps in the past with major releases on the Steam network, but nowadays a patch is released and has almost nil affect on the entire network. For Half-Life 2, they are supposedly going to double or triple the amount of servers they have.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/status.html
Re:can't wait.. (Score:1, Informative)
At best you have a mobile 9700, which has similar performance to a desktop 9600 pro (which will do OK at 1024 with no AA.) But, If you have the mobile 9700, I'm guessing you also have a nice hi-res LCD that needs to be driven at native resolution to look ok.