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From: thor at pivx.com (Thor Larholm)
Subject: Fw: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rein" <mrein@...cgames.com>
To: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers


> In-Reply-To: <01ce01c2d1f1$1beebef0$858370d4@....jubii.dk>
>
> Thor,
>
> I have sent your company an apology for those completely unfortunate
> comments that I sincerely regret. We did provide an official statement
> and I was not, at the time, aware that my verbal reaction, in a moment of
> shock and surprise, was being captured for the article.
>
> The comment was a complete over-reaction to seeing the list of games
> including future games that have not yet been published. It had nothing
> to do with the security issues themselves, the validity of the report, or
> the way Pivx presented it to us. Pivx gave us more than fair enough
> warning of the bugs and we simply failed to fix them in the allotted
> time. We released a statement last week to the Unreal community
> indicating that "we fucked up" in not addressing these concerns within
> the given time and that we were already testing a patch with the security
> issues corrected. In addition the official statement we gave pointed out
> that we were fixing the holes and that the Pivx report was fair and
> accurate. Licensees were already provided with the source code for the
> security fixes.
>
> Again this was a moment-of-stupidity reaction and I sincerely apologize
> to Pivx and the entire security community. Epic has already stated that
> we will take these matters far more seriously in the future.
>
>
> Mark Rein,
> Epic Games Inc.
>
> Visit us at http://www.epicgames.com
>
>