FBI Conducts Raids Over Half-Life 2 Source Theft

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 19, 2004 @06:39AM from the take-em-down dept.

TheXerox writes "According to a recent weblog post, a San Francisco native had his house raided by the FBI last week, and 'lost upwards of 9 machines, and lots of misc equipment besides' in a seizure related to the theft of the Half-Life 2 source code from Valve Software." The scanned-in search warrant posted on the site indicates the FBI were looking for "...any IP addresses related to any of the Valve internal or external networks... Valve passwords and/or usernames... any and all items... related to Valve Software, Half-Life, Half-Life 2", and the Hungry Programmers page mentions that "...several Hungries were raided on January 14th by the FBI and Secret Service, and their computers seized."

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What I need by ModernGeek · 2004-01-19 06:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

is about 10 floppies that are all identical, if I pop one in, I want a gov't level reformat (6 times low level) done in a linux-based distro. Anyone know of a utility like this (like a doomsday device one or somthing, so this guy could have been protected).

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Re:Article text by inc_x · 2004-01-19 10:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They use bulldozers these days to destroy houses.