The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker

eldavojohn writes "You might remember the tiny news that Half Life 2 source code was leaked in 2003 ... it is the 6th most visited Slashdot story with over one kilocomment. Well, did anything happen to the source of the leak, the German hacker Axel 'Ago' Gembe? Wired is reporting he was offered a job interview so that Valve could get him into the US and bag him for charges. It's not the first time the FBI tried this trick: 'The same Seattle FBI office had successfully used an identical gambit in 2001, when they created a fake startup company called Invita, and lured two known Russian hackers to the US for a job interview, where they were arrested.'"

Comments

Kilocomment?

[Anonymous Coward]

How many kilocomments are there in a Library of Congress?

Re:Kilocomment?

[Anonymous Coward]

depends ...

Is a kilocomment 1000 or 1024 comments ?!?

If i am supposed to slow down...about telling me how slow

Re:Kilocomment?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a difference between a Kilobyte(1000) and a Kibibyte. (1024)

The Kibibyte was coined to distinguish the former from the latter.

For more information, please refer to this chart: http://xkcd.com/394/

Re:Kilocomment?

[Anonymous Coward]

"over one kilocomment" turns meme in 3, 2, 1

Re:Kilocomment?

[hairyfeet]

What I don't understand is why we allowed some asshole RAM and HDD manufacturers to steal our word? Megabyte,Kilobyte,Gigabyte these things already had well established meanings,yet some asshate manufacturers trying to beat each other to 1 Gigabyte of storage(yes I'm old enough to remember how it started) decided to change the rules of the game so they could win,and now we are supposed to use that lame Kibibyte crap? Screw that,let THEM change! Yes I'm old and crotchety,but it they were OUR words first! Now get off my lawn!

Re:Kilocomment?

[omeomi]

well, aywwts4 is clearly a hard drive manufacturer.

Re:Kilocomment?

[cryptoluddite]

Speaking as someone who grew up learning that "kilo-" means 1000, what I don't understand why we allowed some asshole CS people to steal our prefix?

Because base-10 is soooo 1900s. Get with the program.

--
One-one was a race horse, One-two was one too.
One-one won one race, One-two won one two.

Note to self

[yo303]

Do not go somewhere where I'm wanted. Stay in the countries where there are NO warrants for my arrests.

Re:Note to self

[camperdave]

Sigh! I'm not wanted anywhere.

In this job market

[KalvinB]

that's just cruel.

Re:shouldn't be legal

[Culture20]

You really thought you were getting that free boat, didn't you?

Re:What happens when other countries do that too ?

[CorporateSuit]

will you arrogant americans stomach your citizens being arrested in set traps worldwide ?

A friend of mine is set to be drafted immediately into their military if he ever sets foot in Turkey, since he was born in a Turkish hospital. That said, do you think he's dumb enough to accept a job interview for a Turkish company? It doesn't matter how delicious it sounds, he's not biting.

An infinite number

[Anonymous Coward]

I can use information theory to prove that the answer is infinity...

Information content of library of congress: I(lib) = 1 bazillion bits.

Information content of one kilocomment: I(1kc) = 0 bits.

kilocomments in a Library of Congress = I(lib)/I(1kc) = 1 bazillion / 0 = infinity.

QED

Re:shouldn't be legal

[jaredbpd]

"A boat's a boat, but the mystery box could be anything.

It could even be a boat!"

!#@%! Metric

[Greyfox]

I'm from the USA. What's the conversion between kilocomments and shit-tons? Google conversions doesn't seem to have it. I find it odd that they will happily do furlongs per fortnight but don't have this...

Re:shouldn't be legal

[Neoprofin]

You mean like when they send letters to bail jumpers about having won a free boat if they just come pick it up?

Wont's someone please think of the criminals?

Re:shouldn't be legal

[Neoprofin]

Good lord you're right! My wife told me she was going to see a friend when she was actually planning my surprise birthday party! If she lied abut that how do I know what other lies that wench has told, after all trust and honesty are the cornerstones of a good relationship.

Re:Our tax dollars at work

[ceoyoyo]

Wow. A bunch of e-mails and a 40 minute phone call... costing billions. I didn't realize it was so expensive to call Germany! They should have just flown there instead. Such fiscal irresponsibility!

Re:What happens when other countries do that too ?

[Thing 1]

"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish hospital?"

Wait! Wait!

[Provocateur]

Is the position still open?

How does one measure a "shitload" as Tb?

[zooblethorpe]

So is that 1024 or 1000 gigaturds? And do we add this to the list along with "Libraries of Congress" and "rods to the hogshead"?

Hmm, some places I've worked, this analogy is perfectly fitting for the "data" being passed around.

So 8 dingles makes 1 turd, ...

Cheers,