At 16:20 7/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Bullshit? you are joking right? Just the time its going to take to do a >full audit of all the code, to make sure that the hackers didnt put in some >trojan or whatever would delay the hell out of it.... > >Its just a plain fact, and you should be happy they are taking the time, to >audit, and even re write portions so as to minimize the risk of exploits and >cheats. Otherwise, everyone would be screaming bloody murder the day that >yahoo gets DDOSed by 30,000 half life servers and clients...
This last statement is very on the mark, and is currently a risk with the Steam architecture if Valve is having security problems. Consider the fact that there are a lot more CS 1.6 players out there than there will be HL2 in the immediate future, instead of the tens of thousands, we are talking about a DoS from millions. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
