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Valve versus the HL2 Hax0r

[Nov 13, 2008, 1:29 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Valve Tried to Trick Half Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview on Wired.com offers in interesting tale of intrigue stemming from the theft and subsequent leak of the Half-Life 2 source code in 2003. One story of an FBI raid in San Francisco surfaced shortly after that, but the new Wired story details efforts at tracking down Axel "Ago" Gembe, a German hacker who admitted responsibility for the data breach. A sting operation was hatched to convince Gembe he was on track to be hired by Valve, and the FBI attempted to lure him from German into the US for arrest under the guise of a job interview. Gembe ultimately did not fall for the sting, but he was charged in Germany for the crime, and was sentenced to probation. His legal status is still uncertain, however, as he has been indicted by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles in association with a distributed denial-Of-service attack by a satellite TV provider, as Gembe is alleged to have created and supplied the Agobot malware used in the attacks. Thanks nin.

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Re: Valve versus the HL2 Hax0r

Nov 13, 2008, 18:49

Buckle Down

Some people don't have time to read every article as a whole because they are busy with "real life" (TM)... ...but you have time to comment on it? Does yo mamma know yo playin' doctor?

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