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Gemini
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I heard about the Half Life 2 leak and I must say I was laughing my ass off tbh.
When I heard the official statement from Gabe I felt sickened that he takes absolutely no responsibility for his faults. He simply blames the "hackers" and asks you all for help. First of all I didn't know using Back Orifice which is a administration program was hacking, any n00b can use it and infect computers by people gullible enough to open the exe's. Tie this with the fact that just about any firewall can prevent them and you wonder what on earth the devs were doing. Either that or the people that stole this code used Sub 7 Trojans which are DDOS related. Valve should have prepared for DDOS attacks, they are the first thing you should prepare for when you get a decent publication. It's no good thinking it'll be alright because it won't, Half Life 2 is the most eagerly awaited game for five years after the genre-defining original, so you expect all sorts of attacks from hackers and other idiots. You would have thought it would have been programmed on an Intranet which had no connection to the Internet whatsoever, this is what I would have done and I would have done it properly. Why did this Intranet have access to the net anyway? It wasn't required. They should have got their shit sorted.
Gabe acts like Jamie Bulgers mother who instead of taking some responsibility for letting her child walk off out of her sight, Gabe tries to blame the "hackers" entirely and won't confess his security was as weak as a wet paperbag in a rainstorm. Sure the "hackers" shouldn't have been doing that in the first place, but at least take some responsibility for your lack of security. If you leave a five pound note in the street and come back a week later what do you do? "OMG THEY STOLE IT FIND OUT WHO DID IT WE WILL SUE THEM ITS ALL THEIR FAULT"
I felt sick to my stomach that Gabe is asking for our help now, he doesn't regret securing his Intranet, blame it all on the "hackers", that's it.
I will probably get banned for this, but I believe I have the right to tell the truth and didn't unecessarily flame him, it's the truth and I hope Gabe is listening and will respond to this, take some responsibility. Then nail the guys who did this, because his actions in response to this attack were unprofessional.
When I heard the official statement from Gabe I felt sickened that he takes absolutely no responsibility for his faults. He simply blames the "hackers" and asks you all for help. First of all I didn't know using Back Orifice which is a administration program was hacking, any n00b can use it and infect computers by people gullible enough to open the exe's. Tie this with the fact that just about any firewall can prevent them and you wonder what on earth the devs were doing. Either that or the people that stole this code used Sub 7 Trojans which are DDOS related. Valve should have prepared for DDOS attacks, they are the first thing you should prepare for when you get a decent publication. It's no good thinking it'll be alright because it won't, Half Life 2 is the most eagerly awaited game for five years after the genre-defining original, so you expect all sorts of attacks from hackers and other idiots. You would have thought it would have been programmed on an Intranet which had no connection to the Internet whatsoever, this is what I would have done and I would have done it properly. Why did this Intranet have access to the net anyway? It wasn't required. They should have got their shit sorted.
Gabe acts like Jamie Bulgers mother who instead of taking some responsibility for letting her child walk off out of her sight, Gabe tries to blame the "hackers" entirely and won't confess his security was as weak as a wet paperbag in a rainstorm. Sure the "hackers" shouldn't have been doing that in the first place, but at least take some responsibility for your lack of security. If you leave a five pound note in the street and come back a week later what do you do? "OMG THEY STOLE IT FIND OUT WHO DID IT WE WILL SUE THEM ITS ALL THEIR FAULT"
I felt sick to my stomach that Gabe is asking for our help now, he doesn't regret securing his Intranet, blame it all on the "hackers", that's it.
I will probably get banned for this, but I believe I have the right to tell the truth and didn't unecessarily flame him, it's the truth and I hope Gabe is listening and will respond to this, take some responsibility. Then nail the guys who did this, because his actions in response to this attack were unprofessional.
