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Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 12:57 pm**

Apparently there is a rumor that someone leaked the source code from a September build onto the net? Anybody else hear this rumor?

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:04 pm**

nevermind, it sounds like somebody modified halflife 1 source code to fool people LOL

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:14 pm**

haha... where's the linky?

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:18 pm**

http://games.slashdot.org/games/03/10/0 ... 72&tid=186

Now they are saying it might be legit. I don't know, if it's real or not. If it is real somebody is going to be burned at the stake, since the game is not even out yet.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:52 pm**

The Source Code has officially been leaked. Gabe Newell (hl2 designer) posted a thread at halflife2.net about the source code being leaked. Huge discussion at that forum, check it out.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:17 pm**

Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.

Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.

Gabe

Wow can you say OWNED

Posted: **Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:05 am**

Originally posted by Set
Wow can you say OWNED

Wow, can you say DELAYED

This is going to push the release date for HL2 back even further, 'cuz apparently the source code that was released had the code in it for the CD key security...they may have to re-code and re-cdkey everything (including boxes/jewel cases) that were already printed up...

This freaking sucks...

Posted: **Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:15 am**

Originally posted by Tony B
Wow, can you say DELAYED

This is going to push the release date for HL2 back even further, 'cuz apparently the source code that was released had the code in it for the CD key security...they may have to re-code and re-cdkey everything (including boxes/jewel cases) that were already printed up...

This freaking sucks...

Yes, this does suck.

Posted: **Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:09 pm**

The big mutliplayer surprise is tf2!

Posted: **Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:37 pm**

Originally posted by Immortal
The big mutliplayer surprise is tf2!

No surprise anymore

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am**

Sorry, it was me. I got tired of all the hype and waiting and decided that I would finish the game myself. I'll let you know when it's done. Unfortunately, me being only 1 guy the release date will be somewhere around December 2010. This may be around the time that Gabe releases his version. We'll just have to wait to see whose is better.

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:58 pm**

hey i'll give you a hand at that.. send the code to me and i'll work on what we both find confusing.

with me on the team i belive we can push the release date back to 2015 or so

THANKS VALVE

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2003 6:30 pm**

Sheesh, companies like EA doesn't allow ANY conection to the internet/CDROMS or Phone lines on a computer with any source WHATSOEVER! What a newbie mistake.

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 5:01 pm**

No offense but, if you have Outlook installed on your pc you deserve to have bad things happen to you. There are so many virii out for that its insane.

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 5:07 pm**

Originally posted by {Sygen}
No offense but, if you have Outlook installed on your pc you deserve to have bad things happen to you. There are so many virii out for that its insane.

Catching viruses isn't the fault of a program. It's user idiocy.

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:14 pm**

Originally posted by Burke
Catching viruses isn't the fault of a program. It's user idiocy.

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 9:43 pm**

True. But it still has to be buggy code for it to have that many problems, right?

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 10:01 pm**

Originally posted by {Sygen}
True. But it still has to be buggy code for it to have that many problems, right?

No. User idiocy.

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:59 pm**

been there, seen it, tried it, way to early to even play.

SG Broadband Community

HL2 Source Code = Free Download?

HL2 Source Code = Free Download?

How can they be so bad at security?