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Phatbot Trojan Suspect Linked To Half-Life 2 Code Theft?

Posted by simoniker on from the uh-oh dept.

Thanks to Gamers With Jobs for its story claiming possible links between the theft of the Half-Life 2 code and the Phatbot trojan writer, following the arrest of the alleged Phatbot creator in Germany last week, as the site claims, regarding "Axel G., 21 years old and known under the nick 'Ago'", that "German IT news mag Heise.de did some investigation [German-language link] and according to their research Axel G. probably also was heavily involved in the Half-Life 2 code theft that happened more than 7 months ago", pointing particularly to an IRC log, available on a Half-Life 2 leak page since late last year, which has Ago allegedly saying "[Download speed] suxx, especially from valve to germany... i coded myself my own sourcesafe client to get it at full speed... i only used a simple null-session to a pc in valves net, that wasnt directly controlled by valve."

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  1. Re:People actually use SourceSafe? by bigbigbison · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, the founders of valve did used to work at Microsoft, so they probably either felt loyalty to their old employer, or had used it at MS and were used to it.

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  2. Re:Of course it wasn't stolen by Leffe · · Score: 3, Informative

    The code is of course copyrighted, meaning that he broke international copyright laws. That is kind of illegal.

  3. Re:People actually use SourceSafe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why was that modded funny? It's true! When I was there, any self-respecting group used SLM (Source Library Manager), aka "Slime". Only a few random groups in consumer division used VSS.