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The Internet Vigilante That Hunts Gaming's Biggest Cheaters

The Internet Vigilante That Hunts Gaming's Biggest Cheaters

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The Internet Vigilante That Hunts Gaming's Biggest Cheaters

FromCYBER

ratings:
Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Aug 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

He’s a vigilante that goes by the alias Gamerdoc. He infiltrates secret online chatrooms to hunt down wrongdoing and the dishonest who prey upon and exploit the system. His target you might ask? The many cheating gamers out there who are using flawed code to be really good at titles like Valorant and Overwatch.here’s a huge underbelly of cheating gamers out there who trade and sell gaming cheat codes, the zero-days of the video gaming world, to get to God Mode without the hours of practice. Believe it or not, cheaters and hackers are a huge problem for gaming companies and today we have Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchierai on the show to tell us about the infamous cheater hunter, Gamerdoc.
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Released:
Aug 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Ben Makuch talks every week to Motherboard reporters Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity.