Half-Life 2 Source Code Leak [Oct 02, 2003, 5:41 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post to the Halflife2.net
Forums by Gabe Newell finally has a comment on the leaked Half-Life 2 source
code, brought to the world's attention by Gamer's
With Jobs and Slashdot.
Here's the deal:
Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
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.
Gabe
How is Valve making you use Steam? You can still play HL, CS, and other mods without steam.
Secondly, when did breaking a release date goal become 'lying'? Hm?
Everybody, let's have a little bit of pity for 'zephalephalah'. Unable to deal with the complexities of the real world, he must reduce everything to black and white and then attempt to aggressively insult people who try to show him the shades of grey in the world.
Seriously. Consider for a moment this person who thinks Valve 'lied to him twice' (by announce a release date for HL2) and is now forcing him to use Steam. Perhaps last night Gabe Newell personally waddled to his front door, installed Steam on his computer, then set read-only on his Steam directory so that he could never remove Steam so long as he lives.
Consider the heartwrenching tragedy that this is. Lied to... twice! Then forced to use Steam! The humanity, the pathos, the drama. The sheer agony of what Zephalephalah has gone through...it's nearly beyond my capacity to understand. I suspect only victims of date rape and racial genocide can truly empathize with the deep and everlasting pain that Zephalephalah feels and so shall feel forever and ever. And all because of Valve, because they lied to him twice and then made him use Steam.
So, ladies and gentlemen, when you sleep tonight. Please say a prayer to our Lord and Savior (John Carmack) that Zephalephalah's pain be mitigated somehow. Maybe he can be given the opportunity to touch a girl's breast for the first time. Just a suggestion. My heart goes out to you for the agony you have endured, Zephalephalah.
Lied to. Twice. And made to use Steam...
Secondly, when did breaking a release date goal become 'lying'? Hm?
Everybody, let's have a little bit of pity for 'zephalephalah'. Unable to deal with the complexities of the real world, he must reduce everything to black and white and then attempt to aggressively insult people who try to show him the shades of grey in the world.
Seriously. Consider for a moment this person who thinks Valve 'lied to him twice' (by announce a release date for HL2) and is now forcing him to use Steam. Perhaps last night Gabe Newell personally waddled to his front door, installed Steam on his computer, then set read-only on his Steam directory so that he could never remove Steam so long as he lives.
Consider the heartwrenching tragedy that this is. Lied to... twice! Then forced to use Steam! The humanity, the pathos, the drama. The sheer agony of what Zephalephalah has gone through...it's nearly beyond my capacity to understand. I suspect only victims of date rape and racial genocide can truly empathize with the deep and everlasting pain that Zephalephalah feels and so shall feel forever and ever. And all because of Valve, because they lied to him twice and then made him use Steam.
So, ladies and gentlemen, when you sleep tonight. Please say a prayer to our Lord and Savior (John Carmack) that Zephalephalah's pain be mitigated somehow. Maybe he can be given the opportunity to touch a girl's breast for the first time. Just a suggestion. My heart goes out to you for the agony you have endured, Zephalephalah.
Lied to. Twice. And made to use Steam...
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