GTA 5 Source Code Reportedly Leaked Online a Year After Rockstar Hack - Slashdot

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  Here's the magnet link: gta v source code [magnet]

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    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e1610f5c681bbe8e908ddb7f73dc890899994f4&dn=gta%20v%20source%20code&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

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  People make that assumption with Linux daily.

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    Good point, Bill.

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    With the difference that there are literally thousands of people who KNOW they'll have a 6+ figures job waiting for them if they can point out a backdoor in the code.

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  Sounds like a good reason not to run Microsoft products.

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  Even if it not malicious, all it takes is a routine to ping a Rockstar server and that can be enough to start trade secret, or just "plain vanilla" IP infringement torts.

  Of course, it would be interesting to see how Rockstar handled a bunch of things, just from a computer science perspective, but using infringing code isn't exactly a professional way to do that.

• Re: Risky to compile and run hacked code

  Executable is useless without the data like the textures and audio.

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  Not really. It's pretty simple to find which parts of the code have network related functions. However, you only need to wait a week and if there is no, "GTA5 source leak is malware" stories then you're in the clear.

  • Re: Risky to compile and run hacked code

    Thereâ(TM)s plenty of nasty tricks code running on your computer could do without requiring any networking; the most obvious would be to encrypt some important files on your machine and then display a message telling you where to send your bitcoin payment to receive the decryption key. (Or if they were feeling destructive rather than acquisitive, they could simply delete your files outright)

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      Again, "you only need to wait a week and if there is no, "GTA5 source leak is malware" stories then you're in the clear."

• Leaked code can still be helpful

  Legally speaking, you're not allowed to use source leaks like this for anything, I believe. In fact, I think I recall that at least one game platform emulator project has explicit policies against not just using leaked code (obviously) but also against using leaked documentation or anything learned from said leaked documentation or code, to the point where if a contributor were to admit doing this, all their contributions would be purged. Game platform emulators are high profile legal targets as the platfor

• Source is different from compiled. Though you can use a decompiler to get something like source code, having access to exactly what humans wrote in the first place makes it much easier for another human to figure out what that code is doing and modify it.

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    It's very good news for preservation. GTA V has some nasty DRM and could have been lost, if not for cracks and now having the source code.

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      > has some nasty DRM and could have been lost

      Anything that can be played offline EXCEPT for DRM should be legal to hack to correct this 'feature'.

      I do own GTA V, but when I was playing it I also had a cracked version that tended to prefer. For one thing, you can mod all you want without worry about getting banned from your gaming account.

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      If I am the creator and I do not want the game/code to exist forever, then shouldn't it stand to reason that my right is preserved?

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          Proprietary source code isn't published, so rather than 95 years from publication it is protected for 120 years since creation. Development on GTA V began in 2008, so we should expect the source code to enter the public domain no earlier than 2128.

          A nice limited time of... way fucking longer than I'm going to live.

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        I think you relinquish that right when you release the work to the public.

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    Only for people who cannot read a disassembly.

    Frankly, it gets kinda scary when you're sitting in a conference with developers who think you're some sort of miracle worker because you decompiled their code and could reverse their shit. It's not rocket science, people... Computers can read and interpret that shit, so it has to be pretty trivial, ya know...

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      >Only for people who cannot read a disassembly.

      Source is an easier read, it is organized according to the thinking process of the dev. Given a moderately competent dev it will have meaningful variable names and structure, and on anything of significant size that starts to matter quickly.

      It's not rocket science, it's computer science, and you're a blowhard who is full of shit. I'm sure you've decompiled "Hello World" and had great success. Good for you.