EVE Online Client Source Code Leaked
News broke out yesterday when the game client source code of EVE Online was leaked via torrent and first made available on The Pirate Bay. The torrent included a chat transcript between the leaker and a CCP representative. Apparently, the leaker was concerned about the rampant abuse of bots and scripts in EVE online and was attempting to coerce CCP into taking stricter action regarding the issue. CCP is obviously not happy about the incident and is censoring the forums of any mention of the situation. Here’s a partial excerpt of the transcript:
[20:44] <Abuser> Could you certainly say me what your programmers did to secure clientside from exploiting Eve?
[20:44] <Abuser> what’s certainly
[20:45] <Abuser> I don’t have anything against content makers - their ideas are good, really good
[20:45] <Abuser> I have full eve sourcecode, so you know what’s did, and what’s not;)
[20:46] <Abuser> From all security i saw - were ROLE permissions for logins with priviliges higher than usual player, and some minor things in relation to prevent some remote service calls (some with potentially bad payload)
[20:46] <Abuser> nothing else
[20:47] <Abuser> is that called “programmers working on security”?
[20:47] <[IA]Morpheus> Are you cruising for a job or something?
[20:47] <Abuser> Nah
[20:47] <Abuser> neither job, neither anything else
[20:47] <Abuser> you may think of in such direction
[20:48] <Abuser> Digging the situation to uncover the truth
[20:49] <Abuser> You may compare me to fox mulder from x-files series
[20:49] <Abuser> it’s the best description of why i do this
[20:49] <[IA]Morpheus> Ah, well, nice to meet you Mr Mulder.
[20:50] <Abuser> So… would you like to answer what AWESOME ccp programmers did in relation to client/server security (at least for client?)
[20:51] <[IA]Morpheus> No, we won’t respond to blackmail. If you think we don’t care or aren’t working on improving security you are sadly mistaken
Word has it that CCP is also seeding the torrent themselves and monitoring IPs to ban any that match active EVE accounts.
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