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The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker

Posted by timothy on from the well-deserved-shadenfreude dept.

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.'"

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  1. Note to self by yo303 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. In this job market by KalvinB · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's just cruel.

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  3. Re:shouldn't be legal by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  4. Re:Kilocomment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    depends ...

    Is a kilocomment 1000 or 1024 comments ?!?

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

  5. Re:Kilocomment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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/

  6. Re:shouldn't be legal by jaredbpd · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    It could even be a boat!"

  7. !#@%! Metric by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  8. Re:shouldn't be legal by Neoprofin · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  9. Re:Kilocomment? by cryptoluddite · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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