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It may not be backups, but a need to rewrite the stolen sections to avoid potential cracks/cheats from the leaked code.3rd Impact wrote:What. The. Fuck.
Still, the story seems a little odd to me. Why the hell wouldn't Valve have backups?
Our exclusive visit with Gabe Newell and Valve Software did confirm that only a SMALL PORTION of the source code was taken. This is different than most of the reports. The entire source was not taken.
No Mention Of Half-Life 2 Delay. So far Half-Life 2 is shipping for the HOLIDAYS.
It appears that Valve Software is really close to getting the hackers. They seem to have their names written on a whiteboard. It's no wonder that it's business as usual at Valve!
They have names on the whiteboard -- the history, date, times -- and other things that looked like file names. That was pretty much a quick issue. You know, it's done! They're on it! They look like they know who did it.
Business seems to be as usual at Valve, and it appears they are working hard on rolling out Half-Life 2.
I'd say your source is full of shit.3rd Impact wrote:Here's an interesting piece of information, gleaned from this source
Our exclusive visit with Gabe Newell and Valve Software did confirm that only a SMALL PORTION of the source code was taken. This is different than most of the reports. The entire source was not taken.
No Mention Of Half-Life 2 Delay. So far Half-Life 2 is shipping for the HOLIDAYS.
It appears that Valve Software is really close to getting the hackers. They seem to have their names written on a whiteboard. It's no wonder that it's business as usual at Valve!
They have names on the whiteboard -- the history, date, times -- and other things that looked like file names. That was pretty much a quick issue. You know, it's done! They're on it! They look like they know who did it.
Business seems to be as usual at Valve, and it appears they are working hard on rolling out Half-Life 2.
The president of VU Games said that the game had to be rolled back by at least 4 months. I'd say that's a bit higher of an authority that "our exclusive with Gabe."CNN.com wrote:"A third of the source code was stolen," VU Games president of international operations Christophe Ramboz told daily Les Echos in its Tuesday edition. "It's serious because it forces us to delay the launch of the game by at least four months, that is to April 2004. Just the time to rewrite parts of the game."
We already knew that. There was a flowchart showing how PA donations were spent, and above the word "Porn" was a sheep.SPOOFE wrote: the other 2/3 of the information taken was hacked from Gabe's porn folder, and he doesn't want anyone to know about his... er... "animalistic" fetish...
Penny Arcade's Gabe != Valve's Gabe NewellDPDarkPrimus wrote:We already knew that. There was a flowchart showing how PA donations were spent, and above the word "Porn" was a sheep.SPOOFE wrote: the other 2/3 of the information taken was hacked from Gabe's porn folder, and he doesn't want anyone to know about his... er... "animalistic" fetish...
If it was such an incredible piece of crap that it's possible to crack it without having or deciphering the key, then it needs fixing. Having the source should make no difference in someone's ability to crack an encryption algorithm. Valve are basically admitting that they were ready to foist an insecure system onto gamers to give their (parent's) credit card information to.phongn wrote:It's odd that Vivendi is making that announcement, though, and not Valve.
Yes, there are betas of HL2 circulating at this time.
I heard that infact it was not old code, but rather grabbed straight from the versioning system. Also, they might be wholly rewriting Steam's authentication system to be incompatible with the leaked one and making it more secure. It may have been security through obscurity, but we have no information on how tight the system is.
And we know that it's insecure how? All we have is a new release date from VU (which is probably accurate) and it's a damn huge leap in logic to assume that Steam was immensely insecure from that little datum. It's also a huge assumption to assume that the credit card mechanism (for the online-purchase edition) is also insecure.Durandal wrote:If it was such an incredible piece of crap that it's possible to crack it without having or deciphering the key, then it needs fixing. Having the source should make no difference in someone's ability to crack an encryption algorithm. Valve are basically admitting that they were ready to foist an insecure system onto gamers to give their (parent's) credit card information to.