Never happened? Lol IIRC there was a 1.5 exploit that went on far longer than was healthy, that was IIRC reported privately long before being made public, here's a link to the posting of a 3rd party fix to the said 1.5 exploit, to jog the memory ;)
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17609.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W0kk3L > Sent: 18 June 2006 07:27 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Steam Bug/Exploit > > Making something like this public won't get it fixed earlier. You only > need > to make stuff like this public if Valve refuses to help and fix it (so you > could add a little pressure), but this has never happened until now > (compliments Valve ;)). Since Alfred and others of Valve are active in > this > list and reachable through mail, it doesn't need to be public. It will > only > result in more abuse. > > -W0kk3L- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:04 AM > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Steam Bug/Exploit > > > Greetings > > I disagree, exploits need to be made public, to be fixed. > > Ondřej Hošek schrieb: > > > Hi Ronny, > > > > you should send exploit reports directly to Valve employees. Whilst the > > people on this mailing list are mostly relatively peaceful beings > > without intentions to abuse this, you can never be too paranoid. > > > > Alfred Reynolds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the Valve guy who tends to > > pipe in on this list most often; you may want to send future warnings > > directly to him. > > > > Criticism of the openness aside, thanks for warning us about possible > > "weird disconnects" of the players on our servers. Let's hope Valve > > fixes this before it spreads like wildfire. > > > > ~~ Ondra > > > > Ronny Schedel wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> there is a horrible Steam related bug: if you send a text message to a > >> player through Steam that reach the maximum text message length, the > >> connected player will be disconnected from the game server immediatly. > >> > >> Regards > >> Ronny > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
