When I asked GameSpy about this, their Chairman and Founder, Mark Surfas responded:
This is from our Chairman and Founder Mark Surfas:
GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games with our products.
What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products, RogerWilco and GameSpy3D-he was describing our backend services and publishing Cdkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file.
But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco Cdkeys and had published hacks on other game Cdkeys as well. He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and asked him to remove the materials in question.
When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their servers.
Let me repeat-we welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun, people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create Cdkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them.
Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our network that affects gamers.
Amen. Good single-malt scotch and aged tequila are hard to find at most bars. One time I tried to order tequila anejo and the bar nymph just blinked her pretty eyes at me. I said, "it's brown tequlia." To which she just wrinkled her cute little nose. Finally, I said, "Just sit on my lap and everything will be fine."
It's the Borg!
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From the website:
In this example, five or more modules, each with processors, are connected together, forming a collective. When one module is removed, the "collective" senses the removal and adjusts accordingly.
Next thing you know, we'll build this thing and send it off to the delta quadrant for further development.
QuickBooks Windows and QuickBooks Mac will not share data. At best, you could take an old QB Mac file and bring it up in QB Windows. Intuit just loves pokin' and jabbin' every chance they get. They claim to be dedicated to the Mac platform, but there's been absolutely no update from them since the release of QB Pro 5.0 for Mac (Pro my ass, it's more like QB 2000 plain jane for Windows).
But it won't be long before Intuit is toppled if they don't learn to play nice with their customers.
Sorry, didn't mean to vent at the parent post in particular.
When you activate an authentication process in Mac OS X (for example, you enter a password, access an SMB server, or allow access to password-protected volumes via the system preferences), the operating system switches to a secure input mode and disables the Shift and Option keys and the spacebar (also called modifier keys). Disabling these keys prevents other network connections from accessing the keyboard input stream and compromising security.
(emphasis mine)
If the password dialog caused the shift key to be disabled, how the heck am I able to log in with my mixed-case password, huh? I use my Mac OS X constantly and I've never run into any problem that looks remotely like this. They're on crack.
The article seems to be a little dated. There's not publication date, but several references are almost a year old.
Details are thin, but honest for a product that's yet to see the light of day.
Not with DSL. You're on your own pipe until you reach their switching backplane. Then you hit their uplink. Speakeasy has good peering. I regulary max out the 768 kbps, and keep it that way for days at a time.
I'll second the thumbs up for Speakeasy. I've been using a 768 kbps SDSL through them (and Covad) for a couple years now. There's been only one major snafu during this last Thanksgiving when I tried to upgrade to 1.1 Mbps (the line quality wasn't really good enough despite Covad's claim to the contrary). They cost a bit more, but it's worth it.
I was previously hooked up via US West. It was exciting.
As am I. I'm in a Marriot Courtyard now and I qualified for the monthly rate and then some. In that length of time, the billing period seems insignificant. Feeling very homesick.
In parts of the US, there is the STSN service. They provide a hotel locator on their website. However, it's rather crippled at the moment. If you put in a Zip code, it will only search within that Zip code. Likewise for city and state. So, put in a state and browse the list.
I don't know why people implement useless non-proximity searches for locating geographic features. Such a waste of time.
The cost for service is typically USD 9.95 per day. Some locations will offer discounts for larger blocks of time. Just be sure to go directly to their portal site when you first connect. If you fire up your ssh session first, you will usually be charged for the day and won't get a chance to claim the weekly/monthly rate. Heaven forbid you should have to stay in a hotel that long.
I ain't no lawyer. Even with Lemon Laws, there are limits to liability. If I drive my new car off a cliff and now the cup holder fails to hold my cup, I don't really have a case. The same can apply to software. Create use restrictions on that software to limit in what cases liability would apply. Even the legislators would see the wisdom in this and would have to craft these limits into any software lemon law. And if they don't, it will be left to the courts to decide. It will not be one-sided. There will be some semblance of balance.
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Well, technically it's not really in Seattle. He's referring to Bill Gates' private movie theater at his home.
Amen. Good single-malt scotch and aged tequila are hard to find at most bars. One time I tried to order tequila anejo and the bar nymph just blinked her pretty eyes at me. I said, "it's brown tequlia." To which she just wrinkled her cute little nose. Finally, I said, "Just sit on my lap and everything will be fine."
We already saw this last year.
But it won't be long before Intuit is toppled if they don't learn to play nice with their customers. Sorry, didn't mean to vent at the parent post in particular.
Is it okay to tcsh people before you think about it?
Wow. You're either really bored or a ranting, lunatic motormouth. Or both. ;)
(emphasis mine)
If the password dialog caused the shift key to be disabled, how the heck am I able to log in with my mixed-case password, huh? I use my Mac OS X constantly and I've never run into any problem that looks remotely like this. They're on crack.
I mean jese, how could it; let me pull yer brain out while yer thinking...
Well, as long as I'm not thinking, go ahead and yank away.
'We're not stupid,' added Wiggins.
All I could think of after reading the article was Chief Wiggins and Ralph dropping heavy things out of an airplane.
"Dropping things is fun, huh daddy?"
The article seems to be a little dated. There's not publication date, but several references are almost a year old. Details are thin, but honest for a product that's yet to see the light of day.
Aw, the poor dear. I think the world could use fewer teachers of that sort. Languages evolve or die in time.
Not with DSL. You're on your own pipe until you reach their switching backplane. Then you hit their uplink. Speakeasy has good peering. I regulary max out the 768 kbps, and keep it that way for days at a time.
I was previously hooked up via US West. It was exciting.
Plus tax.
Bravo!!!! Excellent.
If I knew the answer to this, everyone would know who I am and worship me.
But everyone in the adjacent rooms gets online for free! :)
As am I. I'm in a Marriot Courtyard now and I qualified for the monthly rate and then some. In that length of time, the billing period seems insignificant. Feeling very homesick.
I don't know why people implement useless non-proximity searches for locating geographic features. Such a waste of time.
The cost for service is typically USD 9.95 per day. Some locations will offer discounts for larger blocks of time. Just be sure to go directly to their portal site when you first connect. If you fire up your ssh session first, you will usually be charged for the day and won't get a chance to claim the weekly/monthly rate. Heaven forbid you should have to stay in a hotel that long.
What? No Debian package?
I ain't no lawyer. Even with Lemon Laws, there are limits to liability. If I drive my new car off a cliff and now the cup holder fails to hold my cup, I don't really have a case. The same can apply to software. Create use restrictions on that software to limit in what cases liability would apply. Even the legislators would see the wisdom in this and would have to craft these limits into any software lemon law. And if they don't, it will be left to the courts to decide. It will not be one-sided. There will be some semblance of balance.
That's how I read it. (Editorial & emphasis mine)
Quite the arrogant lot those Microsoft folks.
This is so sick. Foul. How can so many people be so blind with greed? So, this is how the end of civilization begins...