I hope Tyler can do his updates from jail.
but to be serious, i do not think Valve cares much about another leak unless it's massive spoilers for an upcoming title (like HL2 leak in 2003) or possible security issues.
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Counterstrike Go/Team Fortress 2 Source Code has been leaked by a Hacker
- Thread starter TheGamingNewsGuy
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but to be serious, i do not think Valve cares much about another leak unless it's massive spoilers for an upcoming title (like HL2 leak in 2003) or possible security issues.
We have reviewed the leaked code and believe it to be a reposting of a limited CS:GO engine code depot released to partners in late 2017, and originally leaked in 2018. From this review, we have not found any reason for players to be alarmed or avoid the current builds.
Yeah looks like Valve has given the all clear for the time being.
Source code is just the human readable version of the instructions that make up the program. Having it doesn't make the program more secure. Open source programs address usually more secure because they are vetted by more eyes.
If an exploit is discovered merely by reading source, it is because of a programming mistake. And that can always be patched.
Absolutely it can be fixed. If the security of your product depends on people not knowing the source code, it's not secure at all. They'll just have to be better about identifying potential exploitable issues in their code.
This needs to be in the OP.
Nothing new, stuff from 2017 that's been out there since 2018.
FYI: if there is a remote code execution vulnerability, submit it to Valve's HackerOne account. Last year, someone got a cool ten grand for getting RCE out of Left 4 Dead 2. You too could potentially get (multiple) grand in yer hands.
It is compiled, so it's made to run in your machine. Not encrypted per se, but much more difficult to find issues in the code.
Yea I'm a little confused by a lot of the comments here. Unless the devs have written horrendous and unsafe code I don't see this becoming a big deal.
Honestly if anything this source code release could be a "positive" thing for modders. I don't know anything about the Source modding community (Im assuming they have great tools) but getting Source code it's obviously pretty great for them. Specially for a "dead" game like TF2, that hasn't received updates in a long time.
