Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers, Epic Games Responds...
Part 1: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers http://dotnetweblogs.com/RChartier/Story/2234.aspx
Here is Epic Games Response...
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TO: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
FROM: Windows NTBugtraq Mailing List [NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM]; on behalf of; Thor Larholm [thor@PIVX.COM]
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rein" <mrein@epicgames.com>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers
> In-Reply-To: <01ce01c2d1f1$1beebef0$858370d4@wks.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