SA:MP Gone For Good

[I am RKO]

As of June 7th 2008, The San Andreas Multiplayer Mod will be no more.

On the 2nd of June 2008 former SA-MP developer decided to form a hacking group. The purpose of this group was to leak parts of the SA-MP source code and confidential information online and take full credit for it.

With a hacking group in control of the SA-MP source code we can no longer guarantee the safety and security of SA-MP clients and servers, and for this reason we now advise against using this software.

A deal was initially reached, after the the SA-MP client source code was published online, however the group broke the agreement and claimed that the SAMP development team had no copyright over it.

It's a sad day for the mod, which at the time of this had 130,000 players in almost every country across the world playing. The SA-MP client had been downloaded 8 million times.

[Sike]

Re: SA:MP Gone For Good

hackers should be hung drawn and quatered. the ****ing disgust me, who in their right mind would find ruing the online play for thousands of people fun?

[AeroTow]

Re: SA:MP Gone For Good

They should name and shame this person.

[I am RKO]

Re: SA:MP Gone For Good

They have, I'm just not going to put someones personal details on the frontpage of a TGN website.

[AeroTow]

Re: SA:MP Gone For Good

They have, I'm just not going to put someones personal details on the frontpage of a TGN website.

Well if it's already "out there" posting it on Total GTA isn't going to have much effect.

[machstem]

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Well if it's already "out there" posting it on Total GTA isn't going to have much effect.

...he has a point. lol

[Mo0by]

Re: SA:MP Gone For Good

That actually disgusts me.

However upon checking sa-mp.com they seen to be trying to get round the problem?

[AllFoamNoBeer]

Re: SA:MP Gone For Good

The website and master server lists have been reopened. For now, the security situation appears normal. You can continue to use the SA-MP software if you wish and we’ll be releasing some further security updates within the next two weeks. We’ll also be monitoring the security situation and news will be posted here if there are any threats.

Before this new 0.2.2 security update is made available, please adhere to the following recommendations:
* Only play on trusted servers.
* If anyone asks you to add auth.sa-mp.com or auth2.sa-mp.com to your windows ‘hosts’ file, ignore the request.
* If you notice the Internet and Official lists disappear again, please check this website for information.

It has been decided that, although the actions of the former developer are damaging to the project, the responsibility for preventing something like this was my own. There should have been more strict criteria for allowing someone to enter the team and access the source code and encryption keys. Signed agreements should have also been in place. These will be part of the new rules for any SA-MP developer that has access to the source code.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused during the downtime and hopefully this situation will be completely resolved after the next software update.

Kind regards,
Kye
SA-MP Lead Developer

http://www.sa-mp.com/
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