'The Boy who stole Half-Life 2'

[jimbo118]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article

Excellent read particularly the interview with Gembe.

 

[Paulaner]

Nice read. Thank you.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Great article, looking back on those dark days they don't seem so dark now.

 

[Mogi67]

Really good article. He seems like a decent dude, just made some stupid mistakes. I would've done the same things if I were in his position I think.

 

[ray_MAN]

Wow, hell of an article. Strange to think that was so long ago. I still have a vivid memory of the whole thing.

 

[Barnz]

heh, I had a chat with him not a long ago on IRC. he's a nice guy. he could leak valve's all work, but he didn't.

 

[StarBob]

Well that's interesting. For some reason I wanted Valve to actually have hired him. I mean why not? He didn't leak it and he's obviously a driven individual... and he loves what Valve does. Hell they should just hire him for network security if anything.

 

[Lucid]

He's still an asshole.

 

[Mogi67]

He's still an asshole.

Aren't we all

 

[Remus]

He's still an asshole.

Assholes are cool, get with the program Lucid!

 

[Ren.182]

Great read, thanks.

 

[kazsymonds]

Aren't we all

I know I am.

Valve sound like they were pretty naive with their network security back then. I didn't understand some portions of how he hacked them, but I'm sure they're far more diligent these days. No leaked Episode 3 for us!

Nice read. Thanks, OP.

 

[Raziaar]

And IiiiiIIIiIIIIiIIiii, will always buy your gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammeeessss!

 

[Escaep]

A comment:

I wonder what we would find if someone leaked the source code for Half Life 2 : Episode 3.
...probably just an empty file with one comment -

//game goes here eventually.

 

[Warped]

I'm glad the game sold as many copies as it did, but at least every party involved learned a lot in this ordeal.

 

[Shem]

I'm sure he had a lot of time on his hands to hatch such an incredible and difficult plan. I could never do what he did, and even if I could, I wouldn't. He did a lot of damage to Valve, and I wouldn't be too happy if I was one of their employees at the time. Not that any of the events revisited in the article actually matter anymore, though.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

There should be a Movie made from this akin to The Social Network

 

[Shem]

I can easily see Eisenberg fulfilling that sort of role, given his past history of excellent movies he's starred in in which he played the nerd.

Oh wait...

 

[Ennui]

Haha, that site refers to us as "the official Half-Life 2 forums" in its link to us. Sweet.

 

[Asknoone]

That's the first thing I noticed, too. We're such egotists Ennui.

 

[Ennui]

Indeed. ComradeBadger wins though, since his response to Gabe's post about the leak was quoted in the Rolling Stone article about it back in 2003 (or maybe early 2004...)

That was a good article. Not particularly well written, but highly interesting regardless because of the fresh insight and info about the hacker. He seems really repentant... I'm not sure that he actually wasn't the one that distributed the leak (since if he was, he would still maintain he hadn't since otherwise he can be charged with all of that) but either way he seems to have a lot of remorse about it. My eyes even almost moistened at his closing line to Valve, "you are my favorite developer and I will always buy your games".

 

[Krynn72]

And IiiiiIIIiIIIIiIIiii, will always buy your gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammeeessss!

DUDE. How the hell did you think of that also? It just popped into my head when I read that.

I also noticed the Official Forums thing too. I mean, at the time we pretty much were. Stupid Steampowered forums, taking our glory.

 

[ray_MAN]

Indeed. ComradeBadger wins though, since his response to Gabe's post about the leak was quoted in the Rolling Stone article about it back in 2003 (or maybe early 2004...)

Missing CB

 

[JUL3]

There should be a Movie made from this akin to The Social Network

I was seriously thinking the same thing. F*ck Zuckerberg and f*ck Facebook, this is way more interesting.

 

[sixteenth]

This guy actually has the reddit account "icdundes" and responded to the link of this story on reddit. He's doing a more in-depth AMA tomorrow (at least he says he will in the comments).