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Re: Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

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Cheats and hacks were already bad enough, I imagine this won't help :( Darn, one of the most fun games I like to play.

Sadly, OSX Catalina killed the game for Mac users because Apple recognized the extreme demand by casual users to break all their old 32bit applications.

Re: Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

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If the remote code execution thing in CS:GO is true I wonder if it could lead to virtual item theft. We're talking about potential loss of items worth of tens of thousands of dollars. I'm sure Valve could eventually recover them but that could be some serious anxiety and opportunity loss for item holders that are affected.

Re: Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

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Is there some kind of secret agent inside Valve? Half Life 2 source code got leaked before it’s release date as well (or parts of it). The TF2 subreddit announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/g64t0b/data_leak_warni...

The HL2 code wasn't leaked, it was stolen: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st...

Re: Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

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Is there some kind of secret agent inside Valve? Half Life 2 source code got leaked before it’s release date as well (or parts of it). The TF2 subreddit announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/g64t0b/data_leak_warni...

That was 2004, so not a very busy agent...

I’m slightly shocked with the phrasing in that post “It is definitely possible that someone could install a virus on your machine by just being in the same server.”

That.... seems like a pretty shocking security hole, unless they are talking about unknown possibilities, in which case the term “definitely” is a bad choice. If this can be done with the source, it could have been done before, no?

Re: Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

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If the remote code execution thing in CS:GO is true I wonder if it could lead to virtual item theft. We're talking about potential loss of items worth of tens of thousands of dollars. I'm sure Valve could eventually recover them but that could be some serious anxiety and opportunity loss for item holders that are affected.

So far what i've send of the RCE i've seen so far has been a way of triggering pop-ups on the start screen - not to say its not more dangerous than that, but just thought i'd give some context.

Most RCE's aren't carte blanche to run arbitrary code on a users computer, but are some way of triggering a particular code path on a remote computer.

Re: Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

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Is there some kind of secret agent inside Valve? Half Life 2 source code got leaked before it’s release date as well (or parts of it). The TF2 subreddit announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/g64t0b/data_leak_warni...

The HL2 code wasn't leaked, it was stolen: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st...

Web link: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st...
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