A hacker bragging about what he did? That's unheard of!!!
I'm not talking about the kiddies that put "U R Teh Suxx0R!1!!!!!!11!! P2P FOREVAAHH!!!!!!11!!!!!!1" on the RIAA's website. I'm talking about the kind of hackers that infiltrate the power grid computer system and just zoom around to see what all they can do, or those guys that hack credit card companies and the only thing you ever hear about it is when the companies fess up the breach several months later.
Although, if things really did happen as simply as Gabe said they did, it doesn't look like it needed the kind of hacker that gives the Mossad fits.
But having your source code on a machine that's connected to the Internet just makes me shake my head in disgust.
Before some Valve fanboys start flaming, I'm not exactly thrilled that his has happened, but stupidity will do this.
I wonder why people are so worked up about it though. There are 3.5 million people that lost their jobs since 2001 in the US alone, where's your pity for them? I feel a lot sorrier for the people at Enron than I do for the guys at Valve. The people at Enron REALLY couldn't do anything about it themselves. Valve has very little to blame BUT themselves, for implementing such shoddy network security measures.
I wonder, does a game developer of a moderate size actually employ a network admin? And a network security guy? Or is this just a job that's tacked onto one of the junior programmers, and he really doesn't want to do it, since he's having a lot more fun programming weapon effects?
Judging from Valve, it would seem to be the latter. We have a couple of developers posting here, how about your own company guys? Do you actually have someone that knows anything about networking and security?
Creston