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The War Z Taken Offline Following Hack
An anonymous reader writes with this tidbit from Net Security: "Players of The War Z, a first-person zombie survival game, have been notified of a breach of the developer's forum and game databases and the theft of user data contained in them. 'The data accessed included email addresses used to log-in to the forum, forum passwords which we encrypt, email addresses used to log-in to the game, encrypted game passwords as well as in-game character names and the IP addresses from which players log-in to the forum and to the game,' the developer explained ...There is no mention of what encryption algorithm they use to encrypt the passwords, nor whether they are 'salted,' so their advice to users about immediately changing the passwords they used for the forum and the account is more than fitting."
Since you seem wise in the ways of encryption, please help me decrypt this ROT26 message:
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
Considering The Walking Dead is pulling in on average 10.5 million viewers each Sunday (including myself), I would say we are far from the end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Walking_Dead_episodes
I actually heard an interesting theory on that from a student I was mentoring. He claimed that when Democrats are in the white house zombies are popular, When Republicans are in it's vampires.
His reasoning was that the political parties play on subconscious fears of what that party generally stands for.
Democrats are generally in the socialist direction; So people are afraid of just being one in a crowd of many.
Republicans are generally everyone for themselves; Let the few rich/powerful/strong do as they wish with little regulation.
I wish I could explain it as well as he did. Obviously there's a bit of a wake so Twilight was written when Bush was in, but the movies where part of the wake that trailed over to Obama's administration.
Here you go: http://www.cracked.com/article_19402_6-mind-blowing-ways-zombies-vampires-explain-america.html
Sorry to jump on the 'book was better' hipcrowd... but as a fan of the book and (shorter) audiobook... I'm really not looking forward to this movie...
This was absolutely not by the same people as DayZ.
+1 This was a separate company capitalizing on DayZ success with their own game based off War Inc. engine. Hammer Point Interactive were developers for War Inc.
made you read it, didn't I?
Just a thought, but, I'm a bit amazed at the large scope of this. That's a lot of data that's just disappeared and can be sold on the black market. And by black market I mean, ya know, the market. Now, reading a little of the history of this company (even Wiki has an alarming review of the game and the company) and especially the companies leaders one wonders if perhaps they just didn't give a damn. Or... something else.
Reminds me of the economist/criminologist William Black, who said that the best way to rob a bank is to be a banker.
This is no surprise. The game was a pit for spawn camping trolls, aim bots, and everything bots anyway. When confronted with this via their forums they just ban your account and you loose your cash with a snobbish troll post calling you a troll basically. Just get the Arma mod DayZ or wait for the stand alone.