Ahnteis
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Slashdot has a bit up about the source theft inspired by the recent Guardian article.
That last bit of info is new, and a nice slap-in-the-face for the people who blamed it all on use of outlook (which I hate BTW).
Anyway, figured it might be of some interest to folks here. (When we're not worrying about the Doom3 release.)
(emphasis added)from the who-what-where dept.
Thanks to The Guardian for its article providing further details on the arrest of the Half-Life 2 code thieves, with Valve's Gabe Newell explaining: "Through conversations with this individual, [we] had convinced him to fly out to us in Seattle for a job interview. The plan was changed so German authorities would do the arrests on German soil." These facts seem to coincide with allegations that the Phatbot trojan writer also stole the Half-Life 2 code, leading to "Axel G"'s arrest in May by German authorities following FBI tips. Although unconfirmed, one can also presume the previously mentioned smoking gun to be an "incriminating information" packed IRC log, revealing the source of the intrusion as the webservers of a wearable computing firm with links to Valve, on a machine likely housed in the same physical location as the Valve offices, explaining the hacker's comments that he gained entry via "a PC in Valve's net, that wasnt directly controlled by Valve."
That last bit of info is new, and a nice slap-in-the-face for the people who blamed it all on use of outlook (which I hate BTW).
Anyway, figured it might be of some interest to folks here. (When we're not worrying about the Doom3 release.)