I know a lot of you are looking forward to Stalker - it's definately in my list of titles I'm eagerly waiting for (the other two being Doom3 and Half Life 2, of course), but can you believe this news! Taken from a news post at http://doom3maps.ngz-network.de/comment.php?581 , it looks like an Alpha build has been leaked. I've translated it with Babel Fish, so it's very broken, but you can get the gist of it.
The rumors around a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Alpha were confirmed. The gel document version is approx. 118MB largely and contains several maps, opponents and weapons. The version is executable and looks breath-robbing well. Unfortunately we may not show you Screenshots or like. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. became thus like Doom3 or HalfLife 2 geleaked! If that a coincidence to be can?! From official side still no statement is present. - that this alpha version will find a way in or other hand of you is only a question of the time. Have fun!
Update: The presse-Chef of GSC Gameworld, Oleg Javorsky, expressed itself now personally to the occurrences. It confirmed that the videos and pictures are clearly illegaly provision width unit material. Unclear is to be found out, which further step are now introduced, over like the version in the InterNet to arrive could.
Well it's not as simple as that, in a targetted attack, a "fan" could simply just enclose a macro virus / trojan into their email and actually write a decent letter as well. Then when the programmer or lead or designer or someone on the team reads it they get the trojan in the system, and hence all network security is removed really.
And with a custom trojan virus used the virus detection utilities might not even pick it up.
I'm not sure if it's the case here, but there is also the problem when developers send early builds to the press for "preview" articles. So it can be more difficult that just keeping the developers network secure, you have to either worry about anyone else you send it to (publishers, press).
CYer, Blitz
That's true. I'm pretty sure that Doom3 was leaked due to people at ATI. It is also the reason why Doom3 became an 'nVidia Powered Product'.
So fo really good security, you would need to have an isolated LAN. Don't make the game known to anyone. Should the game become known, don't trust anyone. Now where is the fun in that?
An alpha version of [url="http://www.battle.net/forums/wow/thread.aspx?FN=wow-general&T=924669&P=…"]World of Warcraft[/url] has been leaked as well.
hmmm..lets see...
a) wait in a line to download it for 8 hours. download 2gb. connect to slow crappy server to play alpha version of the game with probably 10-20 people. ...
option b) wait for final game to be released....
ill pick b.
[edit]500 posts - yay...and still dangerous. damn you souri for always increasing the ratings right before i get to deadly lol.
Bloody hell.. Someone teach these people how to secure their networks.. Sheesh.