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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. Re:Kilocomment? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    None.

  2. deca post by Frostalicious · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    first deca post!

  3. thanks by ClioCJS · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I shall consider your comment a personal favor to me by saving me the time of having to make it myself :)

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  4. Re:Kilocomment? by hairyfeet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First of all (A) it was a joke,which not surprisingly the mods didn't get so I'm surprised you even got to see it at all. And (B) it was partly aimed at the asshat HDD manufacturers that put in the teenyiest tiniest letters they can possibly print on the box "Oh,BTW 500Gb isn't ACTUALLY 500Gb,because we don't follow the same rules as every OS ever made." Why don't YOU try working in a repair shop all day and listening to Joe customer rant about how you're ripping him off because "He paid for a 500Gb upgrade and this this is only 487!" Like you can actually skim bytes off a HDD. Why don't YOU trying explain to Joe average IQ the difference between 1000 and 1024 and why that means he ain't getting what he paid for. Trust me,not fun.

    I swear if I could write a patch that would make Windows just lie to them about the size I'd do it in a heartbeat. At least with RAM they buy 1Gb they get a little more and are happy. You'd think as much money as the HDD manufacturers are making it wouldn't kill them to give the consumer a couple more Gb.

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  5. Wow what a lucky stiff by SupremoMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just imagine, they could have lured him to Guantanamo instead!