----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers
> In-Reply-To: <01ce01c2d1f1$1beebef0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thor, > > I have sent your company an apology for those completely unfortunate > comments that I sincerely regret. We did provide an official statement > and I was not, at the time, aware that my verbal reaction, in a moment of > shock and surprise, was being captured for the article. > > The comment was a complete over-reaction to seeing the list of games > including future games that have not yet been published. It had nothing > to do with the security issues themselves, the validity of the report, or > the way Pivx presented it to us. Pivx gave us more than fair enough > warning of the bugs and we simply failed to fix them in the allotted > time. We released a statement last week to the Unreal community > indicating that "we fucked up" in not addressing these concerns within > the given time and that we were already testing a patch with the security > issues corrected. In addition the official statement we gave pointed out > that we were fixing the holes and that the Pivx report was fair and > accurate. Licensees were already provided with the source code for the > security fixes. > > Again this was a moment-of-stupidity reaction and I sincerely apologize > to Pivx and the entire security community. Epic has already stated that > we will take these matters far more seriously in the future. > > > Mark Rein, > Epic Games Inc. > > Visit us at http://www.epicgames.com > > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
