EVE Online Source for download.

The popular MMORP space game, EVE Online, received a blow this week as a disgruntled employee or player has released the client source code on the Internet via turrents. CCP’s response to their source code being leaked, ban people who inquire about it on their forums, search for IPs downloading the torrent and ban them as well. CCP is no joke, their forums have stated that anyone even talking about it will get banned. Now, they could just mean getting banned from the forums, but I doubt anyone would risk it.

Reports are being posted that CCP is seeding the source code to trace IP addresses back to player accounts for banning. I hope they understand that some people do play through proxy servers and IP banning can ruin this for a lot of people.

A transcript was posted with source called from an in game member, talking to CCP support. With the source code out, more and more bots are going to start showing up. CCP has enough problems keeping the ISK buyers at bay, not to mention the bad publicity from their most recent version, Trinity. The trinity version installer deleted Windows XP boot.ini files making the installer’s computers un-bootable.

[20:44] Could you certainly say me what your programmers did to secure clientside from exploiting Eve?
[20:44] what’s certainly
[20:45] I don’t have anything against content makers - their ideas are good, really good
[20:45] I have full eve sourcecode, so you know what’s did, and what’s not;)
[20:46] From all security i saw - were ROLE permissions for logins with priviliges higher than usual player, and some minor things in relation to prevent some remote service calls (some with potentially bad payload)
[20:46] nothing else
[20:47] is that called “programmers working on security”?
[20:47] <[IA]Morpheus> Are you cruising for a job or something?
[20:47] Nah
[20:47] neither job, neither anything else
[20:47] you may think of in such direction
[20:48] Digging the situation to uncover the truth :)
[20:49] You may compare me to fox mulder from x-files series
[20:49] it’s the best description of why i do this
[20:49] <[IA]Morpheus> Ah, well, nice to meet you Mr Mulder.
[20:50] So… would you like to answer what AWESOME ccp programmers did in relation to client/server security (at least for client?)
[20:51] <[IA]Morpheus> No, we won’t respond to blackmail. If you think we don’t care or aren’t working on improving security you are sadly mistaken