Phatbot Trojan Suspect Linked To Half-Life 2 Code Theft?
Posted by simoniker on 16.05.2004 21:12
[url]http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/16/
192220&mode=thread&tid=123&tid=127&tid=186&tid=204&tid=99[/url]
Thanks to Gamers With Jobs for its story claiming possible links between the
theft of the Half-Life 2 code and the Phatbot trojan writer, following the arrest of
the alleged Phatbot creator in Germany last week, as the site claims,
regarding "Axel G., 21 years old and known under the nick 'Ago'", that
"German IT news mag Heise.de did some investigation (http://link) and
according to their research Axel G. probably also was heavily
involved in the Half-Life 2 code theft that happened more than 7 months ago",
pointing particularly to an IRC log, available on a Half-Life 2 leak page since
late last year, which has Ago allegedly saying "[Download speed] suxx,
especially from valve to germany... i coded myself my own sourcesafe client to
get it at full speed... i only used a simple null-session to a pc in valves net, that
wasnt directly controlled by valve."