Valve seem to be pretty serious about increasing the security of their services, as it turns out they've been paying hackers for finding flaws.
Using the HackerOne bounty board, Valve has been handing out payments since October last year, but it seems their page only became public earlier this month. If you're interested in helping their security and earning a little while doing so, might be a good place to start.
On top of that, it seems their official Valve Corporation website got a bit of a refresh I noticed recently, but it has since been taken down. I noticed it earlier in the week and posted about it in our Discord Channel, but forgot to post about it here. You can see it using the Wayback Machine, where their about page said this little bit of fun info:
We have some new games in the works, too. A couple have been announced, while others remain top secret.
We know they're working on their new card game, Artifact, plus Campo Santo recently joined them making In the Valley of Gods a Valve game. I am curious to know what these secret games are, since we've known for a while Valve is working on games again, although some of them are VR games. The last full game Valve released was Dota 2, which turns five this July. There was also the free VR experiments "The Lab" from 2016, but who's counting that? It will be very interesting to see Valve get back into the single-player gaming experience once again, but I will stop short of claiming they're working on a third iteration of anything…
Seems there's a lot going on over at Valve at the moment, with a website refresh coming, new games announced while others being kept secret, the Steam UI is due to be updated as well and all their effort in helping to get VR on Linux in good shape too. It's going to be interesting to follow of all this, quite exciting indeed.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: tuubiI still maintain that "hacker" is simply what programmers/developers/coders now call themselves to sound cool. I can't help but feel embarrassed whenever someone uses the term to describe me. I might have come up with a dirty hack or two over the years, but that does not make me a hacker. :PThe first time I ever heard “hacker”, it was in the non-cracker sense, back in the early '80s. I think it might have been in the late, great, Personal Computer News. What I do remember is that whatever magazine it was used it pretty freely to refer to its readers and staff. It was just the word that was used. Trainspotters spot trains, hackers mess around with computers. “Hackers will prefer machine 'X' over machine 'Y' because it has a built-in debugger and monitor, while 'Y' only has a rudimentary BASIC in ROM,” that kind of thing. I don't recall anyone using it in a pejorative, borderline criminal, sense at all until maybe '87-'88.
"Hacker" was a common term for people breaking into systems back in the eighties and nineties, whereas "cracker" referred to people specifically breaking software protections. (DRM in modern terms.) But I guess language evolves.
I agree that “cracker” tended to refer specifically to people breaking what passed for DRM back then, but that might just be something to do with the circles we frequented. :)
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