Hammered before launch by critics for being yet another example of DRM which cripples the products purchased by legitimate consumers but does little to hamper those who planned to pirate the game in the first place, the system proceeded to score a PR own-goal by dramatically failing on the first weekend, when Ubisoft's servers went down and prevented customers from playing the games. Meanwhile, a crack appeared for Silent Hunter 5 within hours (although it's purported to have problems which have yet to be ironed out by the hackers responsible), and hacker groups around the world are competing furiously to be the first to break Assassin's Creed II's protection.
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Digital distribution, too, has impacted on piracy. It's not that games distributed on Steam and other such services aren't also readily available for free on pirate networks - rather, it's the case that these services bring the fight to the pirates' own turf, offering a significantly better user experience than the pirate software does. This has been one of the tragic mistakes of the PC games industry for years; pirates, in general, have enjoyed a better user experience than legitimate consumers. One wonders, for instance, how many people first began pirating their software after being introduced to the shady underbelly of the Internet by hunting for NoCD cracks for their PC games, simply so that they could play legitimately purchased games without having to locate the install CD every time they wanted a quick game.
My goals for the Password Cracking Competition are to determine how strong XKCD Method passwords really are; to assess the state of the art of password cracking; and to stimulate research into new password cracking methods.
Frank wakes up in a shed surrounded by other survivors with one sharpening an ax. The ax wielder wants to know what a photographer is doing here, who snaps that the country doesn’t send food but two reporters, him and Vick. Frank explains that he’s looking for her, but the man tells Frank that if he wants to take his pictures he’s gotta pull his weight like everyone else. And not be like Vick, who just got given supplies and had nothing but questions about what they did when fighting against Obsuris. And she gave that information to the enemy and now his raiders are under attack. Frank agrees on the condition he gets to explore the dam. The man notes that his engineer Hammond is leading the raid, and she knows the dam better than anyone. One of the survivors, Isaac, explains to Frank that Hammond took a number of survivors to Willamette Junior High, and there’s a standoff with Obscuris, thankfully no shots fired.
The dam shakes so Frank leaves Darcy tied up and heads deeper in. But getting outside, all he sees is a transport truck with a large crate in the back with inhuman screams coming out of it. Frank gets spotted by a merc in an Exosuit, so he gets into an Exosuit with a minigun. Fighting off Obscuris as well as the lieutenant, Frank gives chase to the convoy, calling up Brad who has heard the radio chatter and agrees to look up Calder. The radio chatter fills up with a firefight, most likely Tom’s Militia is attacking the convoy. Frank catches up and finds everything in ruins all the way to the Army Reserve, where he finds a wounded soldier, who admits that even if Frank heals him he can’t tell him what they were hauling. But he can tell Frank that command calls this a Recovery Op, and that it was to be taken out of the town for R&D. After the guy falls asleep, Frank looks around and finds more dead hung up soldiers after Calder had ripped the cargo truck apart.
Once the video ends, Fontana finally traps Frank inside the basement, forcing him to fight off her soldiers. Telling Brad that they need Calder’s exosuit to get the big scoop, Frank meets Fontana face to face. He accuses her of immortality peddling, but she corrects that zombie manual labor is more profitable. Immortality was the first goal, but once the smart zombies popped up, the mission changed to pacify, domesticate, and train. Not as soldiers, which even she knows that’s insane, but they’ll be coffee farmers or manufacturing or meat packaging, the list goes on. Cheap unskilled labor at the highest bidder. Frank wonders who would pay for something like that, and Fontana points out any taxpayer would since it’s the government that wants this. The two fight but are interrupted by the roar of Calder who busts open a steel door. He’s a zombie in an exosuit surrounded by Queen Wasps.
As Frank is explaining that he wants to help with the hijacking, he notices that Blackburne’s gone. An explosion happens, and an Obscuris team of soldiers has the farm surrounded. Thanks to his undead advantage, Frank is able to fight them off. Realizing the timing was too perfect, Hammond calls Blackburne on the radio, surprised she’s still alive. Turns out Blackburne decided Frank had more value as an intelligent zombie than as a former zombie and made a deal with Obscuris, in exchange for Obscuris learning of the highjacking. Refusing to be stuck in Willamette again, Frank charges at Obscuris. Heading deep into Barnaby’s lab, Hammond heads off for the helicopter but warns Frank that with a chronic liar like Blackburne, there may not even BE a cure. Getting to Blackburne, Frank threatens to kill her if she doesn’t cure him. Despite touting what a scientific marvel Frank is, Blackburne proves to be a Dirty Coward and agrees to help him. Inside the chamber, Frank sets up the machine, but the Queen Wasp he had gotten attracts all the remaining zombies into the lab. Between fighting the zombies and making a cure, Frank successfully becomes human again. Heading outside he gets to the chopper in time.
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