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Barry Burton
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OC God
22 Jahre dabei !
AMD Ryzen 5
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Quelle1:
As we all by now know, the Half-Life 2 source code and
code to related mods was released to the public by
a hacker. The source was obtained illegally (stolen)
and then illegally distributed via channels like
IRC, HTTP, Bittorrent et al.
Despite how some people seem to think, this source
is NOT LEGAL to download or distribute and to do
so violates US copyright law. No matter what your
intentions, honorable or dishonest, Valve has not
given you permission to download that code in any
way shape or form. Without their permission, doing
anything with that code is illegal.
Furthermore, Valve has pleaded for the community
to help them track down the perpetrators. They
didn't ask for people to go around cursing their
name and downloading THEIR code. The Half-Life
community is one of the most backwards I have
ever seen. More often then not people bitch and
moan at Valve, basically calling chidren smarter
than Valve's developers. Despite the fact some
people seem to think Valve owes them something,
Valve did happen to deliver into our hands the
single most popular on-line multiplayer game ever.
And I think its fair that criticism of their
internal security lapses, remain internal as we
do not have any positive details on how it all
went down. Gabe's description looked more like
speculation of the flaw that allowed it to
happen than a specific bug.
Ungrateful, snobby, little dipshits who think its
ok to launch DDOS attacks and source theft against
any company are criminals THAT ALL USERS should
want to see caught. They perpetrated a crime against
Valve that affects us all, they did no favors. It's
the actions of these individuals which make Steam authentication longer, cause it to go down, and just generally slow down the development of the software the rest of us love and support.
Now is a time to support Valve, respect their rights,
and do whatever we can to help. Most people do, but
many do not, and they are the people this is addressed
to.
Quelle2:
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
(Geändert von Barry Burton um 17:27 am Okt. 7, 2003)
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kammerjaeger
aus Versehen
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Real OC or Post God !
21 Jahre dabei !
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Eins wird daran auch noch interessant werden:
Die NVidia-Anhänger werfen Valve ja ATI-Optimierung vor, was ich persönlich jedoch für absoluten Käse halte (sonst hätte man nicht extra einen NVidia-optimierten Teil programmiert...  ).
Anhand des SC sollten sich diese Vorwürfe wohl leicht analysieren lassen.
Wenn da also nicht bald was kommt, wissen wir, daß die Vorwürfe unbegründet sind.
PC1: i3-2100, HD 5870, 8GB /// PC2: X3 435@3,22GHz, HD 5750, 4GB /// PC3: X3 400e@2,3GHz @0,99V, HD 5670, 4GB /// Mein Spielmobil
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