Half Life 2 Robado

03/10/2003 - 11:06:45 por Fabio Baccaglioni - 8792 - 3 - En Juegos

Como muchos estarán enterándose el otro día se robaron parte del código del Half Life 2. Suena raro, hasta me pareció que era un Hoax, pero por lo visto no lo es, la persona que lo "denuncia" es parte del staff de Valve.
Según cuenta, se le metieron en la máquina a uno de los developers y robaron parte del código, la cual se encuentra para descargar en algunos sites de BitTorrent

Lo curioso es que hasta los desarrolladores de Cheats (trampas) se quejaron de esto, porque ellos prefieren la ingeniería inversa, descubrir cómo hacer un cheat, no robar código. Así que luego de un mensaje pidiendo ayuda la comunidad del Half Life (cientos de miles de jugadores alrededor del mundo) quedó sorprendida por semejante anuncio casi-oficial.

El mismo apareció en el foro de HalLife2.net, sitio de fans y foro en el que participan algunas personalidades de Valve, como Gabe Newell quien escribió ese post tan "raro".

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, [email protected]. 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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