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Lad Stankfoot
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by Lad Stankfoot » Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:22 pm
Interesting article from eurogamer about the leak of Half Life 2 in 2003 and the hacker who cracked it, Axel Gembe.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011- ... -2-article
Gembe's malware crimes, while undeniably exploitative and damaging, were crimes driven by a passion for games rather than profits.
His favourite game of all was Half-Life. In 2002, like so many fans of the series, Gembe was hungry for details about the forthcoming sequel. That's when he had the idea. If Gembe could hack into Valve's network, he might be able to find something out about the game nobody else knew yet.
A socially awkward loner who had endured a tough upbringing, he would gain status in the community of gamers he had adopted as his family by offering up such insider information. It was worth a try.
"I wasn't really expecting to get anywhere," Gembe says. "But the first entry was easy. In fact, it happened by accident.
"I was scanning Valve's network to check for accessible web servers where I thought information about the game might have been held. Valve's network was reasonably secure from the outside, but the weakness was that their name server allowed anonymous AXFRs, which gave me quite a bit of information."
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by mR.MouseR » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:24 am
Haha, I remember when that happened. People were tweeking out, but of course valve just delayed the game, and came out with an even better product.
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by joe » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:10 am
lol even better
hl2 was shit
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by Jason » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:45 am
You're shit.
Anyway I read this earlier today, that shit is crazy.
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by Neelpos » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:55 am
Blah blah I'm Joe oh what's that highesst rated FPS of all time?
Pff, it's shit. Gon' go play TF2 OH FUCKING SNIPERS WHY DOES YOUR CLASS EVEN EXIST.
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by joe » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:06 am
interesting article
hl2 was shit though srsly. don't tell me about ratings, millions of people love Two and a Half Men, doesn't make it good
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by Neelpos » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:11 am
Why don't you like it?(note: "not BF2142" is not a valid reason)
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joe
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by joe » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:09 am
eh doesn't matter and off topic
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by Django » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:11 am
joe wrote:interesting article
hl2 was shit though srsly. don't tell me about ratings, millions of people love Two and a Half Men, doesn't make it good
Hey, you're not alone on this
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by prolix » Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:55 pm
you couldn't pry HL2 / source from my cold dead lifeless fingers
the story was a little lacking in the first and the tech demo argument is valid, but the episodes fixed all that IMHO
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by CaptainTripps » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:21 pm
Joe be trollin....again
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by Nightwolf » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:08 pm
CaptainTripps wrote:Joe be trollin....again
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Dont insult the mighty Joe, he has all the answer. They are backed up with sciences, and facts.
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by joe » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:26 pm
just expressing my opinion, not trying to make other people mad. learn the difference.
nightwolf, you're a stupid douchebag. that's backed up by science.
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by mR.MouseR » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:41 am
Lol @ Joe.