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Half-Life 2 Source Code Dilemma posted by rec @ 6:13pm
Thursday 2nd October, 2003
Is this the most elaborate hoax the community has ever seen, or frightening reality? We have over 2300 users browsing our forum as I write this, and over 400 users in our IRC channel (irc.quakenet.org #halflife2) reading about and discussing this very question. Both these numbers are climbing rapidly as interest and speculation builds just as quickly.
If you aren't one of these individuals and would like to know what all this fuss is about, please direct your attention to this thread. Inside you'll find what is at the time of writing, over 600 heated posts regarding the legitimacy of a leaked "Half-Life 2 source code", a thread that has reached nearly 60,000 views. A huge number of people now have their hands on this code, there is clearly no doubt that this code actually exists, the doubt lies in what it is, exactly.
While coders and mod team members frantically try to make sense of what they have their hands on, there is still no clear answer. Many claim that this is the real deal, others are convinced it's nothing more than perhaps the scariest hoax we have stumbled across. HalfLife2.Net have contacted Valve about the situation and with any luck will have some clarification in the not too distant future regarding this apparent leak. Let us hope that it is in fact a fake, otherwise we're sure to expect further delays for Half-Life 2.
On a final note, HalfLife2.Net does not support or condone the uploading or distribution of this source code, posting of code fragments, nor screenshots of anything leak related, regardless of legitimacy. Any users found doing so will be dealt with harshly.
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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
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Gabe Newell
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HalfLife2 will be delay for a long time....
Would it be a good news to nVidia??
Half-Life 2 Source Code Dilemma posted by rec @ 6:13pm
Thursday 2nd October, 2003
Is this the most elaborate hoax the community has ever seen, or frightening reality? We have over 2300 users browsing our forum as I write this, and over 400 users in our IRC channel (irc.quakenet.org #halflife2) reading about and discussing this very question. Both these numbers are climbing rapidly as interest and speculation builds just as quickly.
If you aren't one of these individuals and would like to know what all this fuss is about, please direct your attention to this thread. Inside you'll find what is at the time of writing, over 600 heated posts regarding the legitimacy of a leaked "Half-Life 2 source code", a thread that has reached nearly 60,000 views. A huge number of people now have their hands on this code, there is clearly no doubt that this code actually exists, the doubt lies in what it is, exactly.
While coders and mod team members frantically try to make sense of what they have their hands on, there is still no clear answer. Many claim that this is the real deal, others are convinced it's nothing more than perhaps the scariest hoax we have stumbled across. HalfLife2.Net have contacted Valve about the situation and with any luck will have some clarification in the not too distant future regarding this apparent leak. Let us hope that it is in fact a fake, otherwise we're sure to expect further delays for Half-Life 2.
On a final note, HalfLife2.Net does not support or condone the uploading or distribution of this source code, posting of code fragments, nor screenshots of anything leak related, regardless of legitimacy. Any users found doing so will be dealt with harshly.
Quote:
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
__________________
Gabe Newell
:End quote
HalfLife2 will be delay for a long time....
Would it be a good news to nVidia??
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