The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker 637
eldavojohn writes "You might remember the tiny news that Half Life 2 source code was leaked in 2003 ... it is the 6th most visited Slashdot story with over one kilocomment. Well, did anything happen to the source of the leak, the German hacker Axel 'Ago' Gembe? Wired is reporting he was offered a job interview so that Valve could get him into the US and bag him for charges. It's not the first time the FBI tried this trick: 'The same Seattle FBI office had successfully used an identical gambit in 2001, when they created a fake startup company called Invita, and lured two known Russian hackers to the US for a job interview, where they were arrested.'"
Kilocomment? (Score:0, Funny)
How many kilocomments are there in a Library of Congress?
Note to self (Score:5, Funny)
Do not go somewhere where I'm wanted. Stay in the countries where there are NO warrants for my arrests.
In this job market (Score:5, Funny)
that's just cruel.
Re:shouldn't be legal (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kilocomment? (Score:5, Funny)
depends ...
Is a kilocomment 1000 or 1024 comments ?!?
If i am supposed to slow down...about telling me how slow
Re:What happens when other countries do that too ? (Score:4, Funny)
will you arrogant americans stomach your citizens being arrested in set traps worldwide ?
A friend of mine is set to be drafted immediately into their military if he ever sets foot in Turkey, since he was born in a Turkish hospital. That said, do you think he's dumb enough to accept a job interview for a Turkish company? It doesn't matter how delicious it sounds, he's not biting.
Re:Note to self (Score:3, Funny)
An infinite number (Score:3, Funny)
I can use information theory to prove that the answer is infinity...
Information content of library of congress: I(lib) = 1 bazillion bits.
Information content of one kilocomment: I(1kc) = 0 bits.
kilocomments in a Library of Congress = I(lib)/I(1kc) = 1 bazillion / 0 = infinity.
QED
Re:Kilocomment? (Score:5, Funny)
There's a difference between a Kilobyte(1000) and a Kibibyte. (1024)
The Kibibyte was coined to distinguish the former from the latter.
For more information, please refer to this chart: http://xkcd.com/394/
Re:Kilocomment? (Score:1, Funny)
"over one kilocomment" turns meme in 3, 2, 1
Re:shouldn't be legal (Score:5, Funny)
"A boat's a boat, but the mystery box could be anything.
It could even be a boat!"
Comment removed (Score:1, Funny)
!#@%! Metric (Score:5, Funny)
Re:shouldn't be legal (Score:5, Funny)
Wont's someone please think of the criminals?
Re:shouldn't be legal (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Our tax dollars at work (Score:3, Funny)
Wow. A bunch of e-mails and a 40 minute phone call... costing billions. I didn't realize it was so expensive to call Germany! They should have just flown there instead. Such fiscal irresponsibility!
Re:Kilocomment? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What happens when other countries do that too ? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Kilocomment? (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking as someone who grew up learning that "kilo-" means 1000, what I don't understand why we allowed some asshole CS people to steal our prefix?
Because base-10 is soooo 1900s. Get with the program.
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One-one was a race horse, One-two was one too.
One-one won one race, One-two won one two.
Wait! Wait! (Score:3, Funny)
Is the position still open?
How does one measure a "shitload" as Tb? (Score:3, Funny)
So is that 1024 or 1000 gigaturds? And do we add this to the list along with "Libraries of Congress" and "rods to the hogshead"?
Hmm, some places I've worked, this analogy is perfectly fitting for the "data" being passed around.
So 8 dingles makes 1 turd, ...
Cheers,