Posted March 3Mar 3 On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 Gabe Newell <[email protected]> wrote: >So how much do you know about the jerks who actually did the leak? I can only say 1 name that I know of, which is SourceX. Hes the owner of LCIRC (which I didn't know before the leak), and he owns all the boxes LCIRC is hosted on. This breakin was clearly done using sniffed data from me and SourceX is the only one with the capabilities, the knowledge and the motives to have sniffed me there (I now even know of other people that got sniffed there, but I was stupid and trusted SSL to keep me secure). Also I am sure I didn't exchange the passwords and other info elsewhere, and I personally know and trust the guy I've given them to. And seeing that most info points to SourceX and myg0t, it must have been them. I even think the Anon guy might have been from myg0t and/or known to myg0t. >Was there some reason they were targetting you in particular? I think so, I had access to valvesoftware.com, and they didn't have. Also I don't think this wa targeted by them, I just think they are bad guys and watch everything thats being done on their server, so they saw me exchanging that info with my co-worker, saw valvesoftware.com, checked it a little more and saw that it was complete login data and some misc other info. And I thought I'd have to hide from FBI and/or other agencies 🙂 >Gabe Problem with this is that SourceX / whoever did this knows my real nick/ip and they will probably say "We didn't do this, his is the guy that did the breakin" or probably "that guy gave us access". And also there would have to be evidence. If you'd crack down on Hitman or some others of those for distributing the leak, he'd probably tell you the real people behind it, but I can only that it was done by myg0t. I might get you some more evidence, but that would require you to give me a written confirmation that you will not prosecute me for any hacking actions before may 2004 (you can exempt copyright violations/other stuff from this in case you don't trust me). Also I'd like to ask, you don't happen to search a Programmer / Security specialist who recently lost his job ? I program small games, in OpenGL/D3D which work on Linux and Win32. I also code small utilities for my hacking / pentesting / network admin usage, and I'm pretty advanced when it comes to network security. Think about it, I'd really like to work for someone like you. Also you didn't answer my last question, which was about what you would have done if I had told you that I was in you network early, like jan 2003. In case you're too busy to answer my stuff, direct me to someone else (preferrably alfred, if hes got the time, he got knowledge of the stuff I installed on the linux pcs, and hes the one whose stuff I always admired the most, cause he does stuff for the linux community) Please try to answer some of my questions, I try to answer yours, too. - Da Guy Â
