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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

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