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Valve Announces Half-Life 2 Code Theft Arrests
Ant writes "GameSpot and other sources report arrests were made:
Developer of the much-anticipated and delayed shooter sequel reveals an international wave of arrests has been made.
The Half-Life 2 code theft saga entered a new chapter today when Valve Software announced a series of arrests had been made in the case. According to Valve, suspects in several countries had been taken into custody in relation to charges stemming from the theft of the Half-Life 2 code, distribution of the code, and breaking into Valve's network..."
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I just heard the news from my local radio that singer/song writer/blind dude Ray Charles Jr has died in his home at the age of 73. Even if you didn't like his music, there's no denying what he has done for American music. He will be sorely missed.
Truely an American Icon.
Beat me to the punch
omg
If a German (virus writer) was actually involved - maybe it's because he looked like this. He was just trying to steal back his identity.
Ronald Raygun, 40th President of the United States of America, was found dead in the U.S. Capitol rotunda this morning. No more details were available. Sources close to Senator Ted Kennedy report that this isn't the first time President Raygun has been lying inside the Capitol, though this is likely the last time he'll be lying there in the presence of Congress. Truly an American hero. Even if you weren't a fan of his pro-deficit/pro-AIDS policies, you have to admit he was definitely something or another.
...Steamy bullshit.
Salutations, amigos!
Bill Bilano here, reporting in from the front-lines! I've got some
disturbing news that I've got to get some answers about while I share. I
think we're about to come under full hacker attack at any second! And to
those people that said us folks talking about crypto viruses were being
chicken littles... let me tell you, the sky just fell! And it is HEAVY!
I was sitting at my desk doing more research on the OPENBSD virus I
discovered last week. I was watching ethereal and monitoring the traffic
coming in and out of the facility and I saw a ton of traffic coming straight
for our web servers! The routers, firewalls, and intrusion detraction
systems were not sounding the red alarms like they should have been (we'll
get to THAT one later).
There appears to be a new virus in town and it's affecting Windows and UNIX
web servers! I have not identified a pattern of infection yet but the virus
is clearly advancing but it only affects web servers!
The virus works on port 443. It seems to accept inbound connections on that
port as well and, presumably, awaits for commands from some series of
servers elsewhere. Perhaps taking orders? I also captured some of the
traffic and attempted to analyze it up but it looks like -- you heard it
here first, folks -- the payload is encrypted! Is this the first of a coming
storm of crypto viruses we've all been eagerly fearing? (I have already sent
a copy of the payload to the distributed.net people so they can try to use
some of those wasting cycles to decipher it like they did the last one!)
I have taken the liberty of naming the virus already. I looked in
etc/services and saw that this port is for and it is something called "ssl"
so I am calling it w32.ssl.b (b for bilano, since I discovered this wretched
thing!)
I called in our webmaster and showed him the data. He is either too stupid
to know what's going on or he takes me for a fool. I got him in the
conference room and showed him the print outs. He tried to convince me it
was not a virus and just normal web traffic but web traffic is on port 80!
No fooling old Bill! LOL! So I told him to gather his stuff up and gave him
his marching orders. I have no time for this kind of bull, what with the
OPENBSD virus last week (still picking up the pieces there). He must have
known I was on to him because he was just laughing on his way out the front
door. He may have even been involved with the infection! Good riddance,
chump!
At any rate, this is your heads up, folks! You heard it here first! Be on
the lookout for this first, very nasty CRYPTO VIRUS!
P.S. I wonder if this virus was from a spam-gang?!
P.P.S. Check out my bloglog in my sig!
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Mr. Billy B. Bilano, MSCE, CCNA
Expert Sysadmin Since 2003!
'C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINDOWS\GO, C:\PC\CRAWL' -- RMS
Ok, i'm dying of curiosity now.
Are you a truck?
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
censorship devise? what a hoot, if it weren't so scarIE?
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Nope.
My user number is prime. Is yours?
Desert loving in your eyes all the way
If I listen to your lies would you say
I'm a man without conviction, I'm a man who doesn't know
How to sell a contradiction, you come and go, you come and go
CHORUS:
Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon
You come and go, you come and go
Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dream
Red gold and green, red gold and green
Don't hear your wicked words every day
And you used to be so sweet, I heard you say
That my love was an addiction, when we cling our love is strong
When you go you're gone forever, you string along, you string along
CHORUS
Every day is like survival
You're my lover, not my rival
Every day is like survival
You're my lover, not my rival
I'm a man without conviction, I'm a man who doesn't know
How to sell a contradiction, you come and go, you come and go
CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS
no
Feel free to delay Halflife 2 as long as you'd like.
:(
As long as that is delayed, my free subscription to Day of Defeat is on. As soon as it comes though, I lose
The greatest experience we can have is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
flip flops
Not too many "other sources" available.
Ehm, that's kinda the entire reason for these arrests. You should check out Kazaa, tons of sources to be found there.
At this very moment, Judas Priest (including Rob Halford) is performing a couple of miles from me.
The true crime tonight is that I am missing this...
Companies shouldn't release any information on upcoming games until they've already gone gold, then there would be no more "delays". Anyone remember Duke Nukem Forever?