User information for Darren "Dakota" Tabor

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Darren "Dakota" Tabor
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July 1, 2001
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Re: just in case you're crashing...
Dec 20, 2003, 20:15
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Re: just in case you're crashing... Dec 20, 2003, 20:15
Dec 20, 2003, 20:15
 
Nope. Total downloads are now over 1 million for Desert Combat on FilePlanet. The 250k is for the incremental patch. The full client is over 800k.

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Re: No subject
Nov 21, 2003, 18:40
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Re: No subject Nov 21, 2003, 18:40
Nov 21, 2003, 18:40
 
Actually, it is the GSI version with the file renamed.

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Re: BAH
Nov 21, 2003, 14:27
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Re: BAH Nov 21, 2003, 14:27
Nov 21, 2003, 14:27
 
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Re: No subject
Nov 21, 2003, 14:14
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Re: No subject Nov 21, 2003, 14:14
Nov 21, 2003, 14:14
 
Make sure you select "Launch Installer" during the installation, rather than "Play Demo".

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Re: Yes...
Nov 20, 2003, 16:31
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Re: Yes... Nov 20, 2003, 16:31
Nov 20, 2003, 16:31
 
Wrong. On many levels.

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Re: FilePlanet Mirror
Nov 17, 2003, 18:53
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Re: FilePlanet Mirror Nov 17, 2003, 18:53
Nov 17, 2003, 18:53
 
Actually, I did respond: http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=44550&id=119596&boardid=1&view=threads

You were send a link to the FilePlanet mirror of the MP2 demo the instant it was available. I waited an hour, but no link lovin' for the ol' FP. :-(

This comment was edited on Nov 17, 18:57.
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FilePlanet Mirror
Nov 17, 2003, 18:32
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FilePlanet Mirror Nov 17, 2003, 18:32
Nov 17, 2003, 18:32
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LOE Limited Public Beta
Nov 15, 2003, 18:37
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LOE Limited Public Beta Nov 15, 2003, 18:37
Nov 15, 2003, 18:37
 
The LOE Beta on FilePlanet was opened to the public on Friday afternoon.

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GameSpy Responds
Nov 12, 2003, 16:49
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GameSpy Responds Nov 12, 2003, 16:49
Nov 12, 2003, 16:49
 
http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/fullstory.asp?id=5474

GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games with our products.
What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products, RogerWilco and GameSpy3D -- he was describing our backend services and publishing CDkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file.

But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco CDkeys and had published hacks on other game CDkeys as well. He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and asked him to remove the materials in question.

When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their servers.

Let me repeat: We welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun, people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create CDkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them.

Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our network that affect gamers.

I welcome contacting me about this issue! Please send an email directly to me at marks@gamespy.com.

Mark Surfas
Chairman & Founder
GameSpy


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Re: Holy mother...
Nov 8, 2003, 11:52
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Re: Holy mother... Nov 8, 2003, 11:52
Nov 8, 2003, 11:52
 
Windows displays download speeds in kilobytes per second, so it is the number most folks understand.

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Re: Holy mother...
Nov 7, 2003, 20:42
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Re: Holy mother... Nov 7, 2003, 20:42
Nov 7, 2003, 20:42
 
900 Kbit/sec is equal to 112.5 KBytes/sec.

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Re: Errr
Nov 6, 2003, 18:07
4.
Re: Errr Nov 6, 2003, 18:07
Nov 6, 2003, 18:07
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Mirror
Oct 27, 2003, 14:22
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Mirror Oct 27, 2003, 14:22
Oct 27, 2003, 14:22
 
Nevermind. :-)

This comment was edited on Oct 27, 14:23.
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Contract JACK Public Multiplayer Demo
Oct 25, 2003, 16:23
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Contract JACK Public Multiplayer Demo Oct 25, 2003, 16:23
Oct 25, 2003, 16:23
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Re: gay
Oct 7, 2003, 19:05
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Re: gay Oct 7, 2003, 19:05
Oct 7, 2003, 19:05
 
A great comment, except that the demo was never restricted to paying subscribers. It has been open to the public users of FilePlanet since the beginning.

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Re: Mirror
Oct 4, 2003, 01:18
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Re: Mirror Oct 4, 2003, 01:18
Oct 4, 2003, 01:18
 
Hi Stephen,

We send out FilePlanet links to a few dozen gaming news sites whenever the content merits it. I personally sent links to the updated XIII demo and patch as soon as it was released. I’ve been sending news to Blue’s since it was Blue’s Quake Rag, but I guess recent e-mails aren’t getting through. You should have about half-a-dozen e-mails from me in the past week. Perhaps my e-mails are being stopped by an overaggressive, post-SOBIG spam filter? I’ll have to look into it on my end.

I wasn’t trying to make any sort of a statement by posting links in the forum. FilePlanet wasn’t listed as a mirror, so I was just trying to give folks another place to download the file.


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FilePlanet Mirror
Oct 2, 2003, 20:42
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FilePlanet Mirror Oct 2, 2003, 20:42
Oct 2, 2003, 20:42
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Re: No subject
Sep 23, 2003, 00:48
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Re: No subject Sep 23, 2003, 00:48
Sep 23, 2003, 00:48
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