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blog.wired.com - 11/13/2008

Valve Tried to Trick Half Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview | Threat Level from Wired.com

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Halflife2gordonfreeman After the secret source code for its then-unreleased shooter Half Life 2 showed up on BitTorrent in 2003, gamemaker Valve Software cooked up an elaborate ruse with the FBI targeting the German hacker suspected in the leak, even setting up a fake job interview in an effort ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 11/13/2008

The Job is a Lie: Valve almost lured Half-Life 2 source hacker with fake job interview - Boing ...

— gadgets.boingboing.net — f146c9ae3e077561a69c54880e08cab5.jpg Just a friendly reminder: if you're going in for a job interview with Valve Software (the... creators of the Half-Life series, Portal and the upcoming Left 4 Dead ), make sure they aren't charging you with any ... (more) The Job is a Lie: Valve almost lured Half-Life 2 ...

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store.steampowered.com - 11/20/2008

Half-Life on Steam

— store.steampowered.com — Buy Valve Complete Pack Includes: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Deathmatch Classic, Half-Life: Opposing Force,... Ricochet, Half-Life, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, ... (more) Half-Life on Steam

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The Job is a Lie: Valve almost lured Half-Life 2 source hacker with fake job interview
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... bad guy, just a little misguided." Newell passed the resume along to the feds, then invited Gembe to travel to Seattle for a follow-up interview in person. "We pay for all interview related expenses (travel, hotel, food, etc. ...) as well as relocation expenses (pretty standard for the game business)." Eventually, the hacker's spider sense weakly tingled, and he refrained from flying to Seattle to let Valve and the FBI arrest him. What a maroon. Valve Tried to Trick Half-Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview [27 B Stroke 6] ...

Clever: Valve tried to offer job to guy who stole Half-Life 2 source code
CrunchGear — ... a few years ago, showing up all over BitTorrent, IRC and the like? It turns out that Valve, once it was able to determine who was responsible (with the help of the FBI), a German fellow by the name of Axel Gembe, attempted to offer him a job! The company offered him the job in order to lure him to the U.S. so he could be arrested. Gembe, perhaps thinking that it was patently ludicrous that the company he just helped screw would want to emply him—you know, to make good use of his elite hacking skills—refused the job. ...