Re:A boy who stole Half-Life 2
by HenryBemis on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:22PM
(#37342387)
TL-DR:
1) don't hack.
2) if you hack, don't get caught.
3) if you hack and get caught, be in a country that you can bribe yourself out of the mess (definitely not Germany!)
4) don't destroy other people's hard work, it's not nice.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
I think 3 should be "Don't email your hack victims with proof of your crimes for a face-to-face meeting."
Re:A boy who stole Half-Life 2
by RandomGuy456 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:35PM
(#37342565)
That one is fundamental! lol
Rule 0: Commit 1 crime at a time.
Re:A boy who stole Half-Life 2
by doubled112 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:40PM
(#37342650)
"Only break one law at a time" is exactly this said another way, yet somehow easier for me to parse.
Fair, but it loses out on the rhyme.
He did so to confess. He has admitted he didn’t want to hide. There’s no strategy to critique here; he wanted to come clean.
I'm guessing he got a better deal than if he had been caught
Re:A boy who stole Half-Life 2
by Modified3019 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @08:06PM
(#37345165)
Only because he lived in Germany and their system was more reasonable about it.
5) never come clean to feds
Re:A boy who stole Half-Life 2
by Nullabillity on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:47PM
(#37343474)
> 4) don't destroy other people's hard work, it's not nice.
Destroy.. how? The game still exists, Valve still owns it.
Re:A boy who stole Half-Life 2
by badsectoracula on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:03PM
(#37343640)
Not only they own it but their entire gaming position with Steam is thanks to Half-Life 2 forcing everyone to download it (and pretty much everyone hated Steam at the time).
Actually the beta release of Steam with CSS worked fine and dandy (I recall fun times), but the general release was just plain crap for months afterwards.