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Valve Updates On Half-Life 2 Code Leak

Posted by simoniker on from the fear-for-your-hax0r-lives dept.

Thanks to ShackNews for their updated report from Valve boss Gabe Newell regarding Thursday's leak of the Half-Life 2 source code. He says: "We're still finding machines internally that have been compromised" in relation to the "infiltration of our network" that led to the code leak, and warns that other developers may also be in danger: "There's anecdotal evidence that other game developers have been targeted by whoever attacked us." But he ends with a hopeful appeal to those who've been helping Valve hunt down the culprits online: "I've been fielding calls from the mainstream non-games, non-technical press all day. Hopefully they will get to report shortly what a mistake it is to piss off a whole bunch of gamers and get them hunting you around the Internet."

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  1. GPL found? by AresTheImpaler · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Somebbody said that there was some gpl code in the leaked code.. does anyone have a link? or any info on this? or was that person trolling?

  2. Perhaps Valve would consider Open Source now? by QuantumG · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Seeing as the source code is very much "open" already, wouldn't it make sense for Valve to formally Open Source their game? Exactly what do they have to loose? Even if they were to make it open source (not capitialised, i.e., if they were to prohibit commercial use) we might as least see a port of Halflife 2 to Linux...

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  3. Hate to say it..... by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: -1, Redundant
    But I'll bet many MANY gamers would be happy if HL2 found its way on Kazaa before it was officially released. Now, I know that won't happen.....but I'm just saying what the reality of the opinion of gamers is. Its not like this would actually stop the official release of the game

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  4. Cheats possible by Flingles · · Score: 1, Redundant

    As far as I can think there are many possible outcomes:
    1: Cheats become widely available. Cheat programs are made to stop them eg. punkbuster. This = good. I don't mind the supposed "bandwidth hogging" programs on cable.

    2: Cheats are made but not let out for free use. This would be a small problem due to only a few l33t hax0rz having cheats. I prefer to just kill them with my handhack(tm).

    3: A combination of 1 & 2.

    4: Valve delays hl2 to make changes to the code. I hate to say it but I'd rather 1,2 or 3 than this. Besides, anti cheat could possibly be put in with a patch.---best scenario.

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