A post to the
GameSpy
Forums by GameSpy chairman Mark Surfas offers their official response to the
report from earlier today of security issues and their response (
story).
The post outlines their side of how contact with the researcher unfolded,
saying: "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." Here's a bit more: "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."