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Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools

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Re: Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools

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Post by DonHopkins »

It reminds me of when unsuspecting thieves accidentally stole a container of Iridium-192 used for industrial radiography from a lab in Mexico, and were eventually arrested and taken to the hospital to be treated for radiation burns.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-32332271

The FBI should keep an eye on hospitals for anyone showing up with burning bleeding eyes and a swelling itching brains and melting faces, from looking at EA's source code! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1bNh-9Nj7U&ab_channel=HRViz...

Re: Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools

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Post by eh9 »

miav wrote: post #52

There have been multiple attacks like this and it seems the stolen code is usually made public in the end. I presume people will look at it and reuse some concepts and I wonder if this could lead to the technical state of the industry becoming better as a whole.

When you consider how prone to patents the gaming industry can be, (and the fact that this is EA), I would be very careful before reusing concepts from here.

Re: Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools

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Post by jokoon »

Not really sure what this changes for the games released.

I would say very little, in a way bad advertising is advertising which is good advertising.

It might reveal some part of the scenario or features, and put pressure on the teams, but other than that, who really cares? Fans will talk about it, and that's only what this is.

Maybe competitors might get an insight on what games are planning to be, but I doubt that there is much innovation, so meh?

And it's not like those engines have tremendous engineering secrets either ways. I mean GPU are documented, and special shader effects are not that so hard to come by, what is difficult is getting developers who are able to understand how GPU work and to take advantage of those ever changing GPUs and APIs.

I really don't think the game is going to be available in a pirated copy, seen that building such AAA games is pretty difficult for developers who are not part of their teams, not to mention all the copy protection mechanisms.

Re: Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

DonHopkins wrote: post #61

It reminds me of when unsuspecting thieves accidentally stole a container of Iridium-192 used for industrial radiography from a lab in Mexico, and were eventually arrested and taken to the hospital to be treated for radiation burns. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-32332271 The FBI should keep an eye on hospitals for anyone showing up with burning bleeding eyes and a swelling itching brains and melting fa…

The FBI should keep an eye on hospitals for anyone showing up with burning bleeding eyes and a swelling itching brain, from looking at EA's source code! ;)

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