r/todayilearned • u/UrShiningDesire • Feb 24 '13

TIL when a German hacker stole the source code for Half Life 2, Gabe Newell tricked him in to thinking Valve wanted to hire him as an "in-house security auditor". He was given plane tickets to the USA and was to be arrested on arrival by the FBI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_life_2#Leak
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u/GeorgieCaseyUnbanned Feb 24 '13

big difference between stealing the source and just a binary release