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Valve maintains systems that contain sensitive financial information, sensitive internal IP, and a whole library of external IP from other publishers. This was
by mey 16y ago
Valve maintains systems that contain sensitive financial information, sensitive internal IP, and a whole library of external IP from other publishers. This wasn't a script kiddie pulling things off bit-torrent, this was an elaborate penetration into a corporate network.
If I was in Valve's position, I would blackball him from working there because he couldn't be trusted, and the damage he caused.
Damage caused was at least time spent cleaning up his mess in their network. Conversely it sounds like Valve had a very weak security setup in their network.
- sukuriant 16y agoI haven't the faintest clue about how accurate the sort of story I'm about to use as a counter-point is, but what about capable hackers that succeed in breaking into government servers then being given a choice to either work for said government organization, or go to jail for a very long time? Assuming those sorts of cases actually happen, how is this any different?
- protomyth 16y agoA lot of those stories are more in the realm of folklore, and the agencies that are said to have offered such choices have "alternate choices" for reduction in personnel than a private business has if the arrangement doesn't work out.
- mey 16y agoProbably thinking of something like http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/01/72515 http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/01/7251... and if memory serves me correctly, he was eventually caught shuffling credit cards that they captured back out for a tidy profit.