EVE Online source code stolen, seeded

[Nabobalis]

From Here

CCP is aware that an individual claims to have access to the source code of the EVE client. This access is not a security risk to CCP in any way. CCP does not believe in security by obscurity. The Python scripting language that is used by the client can be easily decompiled to generate human-readable code, and CCP has designed its server-side systems with that understanding. Access to the source code for the EVE client exposes no security vulnerabilities, has no privacy protection issues, and poses no threat to our customers' billing information. The server-side interface used by the client is carefully protected to ensure that no abusive or unwanted information is transmitted to, or from the EVE system. Nothing the EVE client can do can affect the game state, no advantage can be gained by manipulating the EVE client, no advantageous or disadvantageous information can be transmitted to other EVE users by altering the EVE client. The EVE client is signed with a security certificate registered to CCP, and hashes are available on our web site for those who wish to ensure the integrity of EVE client download files they may have received from a source other than direct download from CCP's web site.

CCP does not confirm or deny, nor make any comment, regarding issues of internal security, and will not be doing so in this case. As a policy, CCP removes message board posts regarding violations of its EULA and Terms of Service, and CCP considers any alteration of the Client software, including decompilation, to be such violations.

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Ryan S. Dancey
Chief Marketing Officer
CCP

Well, this is news. I don't think you can do anything with the code. So no worry but they are banning people who are seeding this.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

This story is so blown out of proportion.

No source code was "leaked". All someone did was use a decompiler (Decompyle or DePython probably) on the python code files that are on the disc... Hell, if you have Eve, feel free to do it yourself on the game.

It's no security risk at all and is so dumb that it's gotten this much news.

 

[VirusType2]

if it's easy to do, I wonder why is it just happening now?

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Because nobody cared to do it before? It's useless to do.

Plus, it probably was done before, but whoever decompiled it and put it out there made it sound like it was something huge, and CCP has to respond to that. Nobody ever wanted to make a scene out of it before.

 

[Nemesis6]

Heh, it's on TPB. 205 seeders.

 

[jimbo118]