Recent content by Andrew Crystall [deprecated]

Okay, I'll spell it out. This is a moderately well known hacker, who'd been doing this for over a decade. He is paid to hack websites. You are giving him all the free publicity he could hope for. This entire affair isn't even ABOUT him, in the end - it's about CCP, it's about BoB and it's...

Echolocating, then why are journalists not allowed to pay criminals for their stories? Come on! Black Dawg, yes, there are certainly factions within the devs as well. Popsikle, they've let a wholly inadequate statement stand. There is a LOT more they could chosen to say, and they're not. I...

goonygoon... I'm afraid that the police are not, for example, allowed to tie someone up, beat them and then take their confession into court. How evidence is extracted is legally and morally important. I'd read up on Indonesian law before you continue - and further, charges could be laid in a...

Joe, I'm a Brit. But anyway... Basically, I'm saying that a lot of what Kugutsumen / AnthonyZ has posted is...distorted from what is on the source forums. That he stumbled across something, and posted one element unchanged is no reason to believe what he said - it's a reason to *investigate*...

Why? Unethical behavior by CCP is no excuse for unethical behaviour by others. goonygoon, I suggest you read up about evidence admissable in court. How information is gathered DOES matter. A lot. I am not BoB. You're flailing blindly in the dark looking for a target to draw away the repeated...

Carrie Byron, sure - as soon as Kugutsumen is serving 5-10 inside we can forget about him. The precident being set here is that any method is acceptable for exposing dev misconduct, legal or illegal. I'm afraid I consider this reprehensible. That a second interview can possibly discuss "why" he...

Twisted Perspective, I'm afraid I'll need evidence of that. Shannon Drake, why not? The entire thing is being driven on hysteria, and more ridiculous things are being said. Like Twisted Perspective's statement.

Virgil, WHAT? Kugutsumen *is* a real criminal. That means I have to ask a question, which won't make me very popular arround here, but I feel I have to ask, at this point: Did you pay Kugutsumen for his participation in the article? Goonfleet used client-side hacks, and I am appalled that you...

That is an excuse. The fact remains, it was a client side hack. Period. End of story. That CCP could not come up with a good way to defend against or detect it and had to add the functionality to the base client to ensure certain parties did not have an unfair advantage is just the end...

Joe, I'm afraid that I must disagree, strongly, that where it came from is of no account. The fact it came from a hacker MUST make it suspect. And if some of it is true, that is no guarantee all of it has. It's a simple credability issue. Yes, t20 should be fired, immediately. He should of...