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The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that's stood for 15 years.

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[–] atkion@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It used to be incredibly common, but popular speedrunning games now have mod teams monitoring the leaderboards, sometimes going to truly unbelieveable amounts of effort to prove a run was or was not cheated. It's actually pretty difficult to get away with it these days.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I know, I have seen the YouTube videos, but cheating is still easy to pull off. They just did a bad job and that exposed them. It is far harder to prove the cheating than to cheat, that is the issue.