02 Oct The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
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WIRED reports that Speedrunning video games, the competitive field of playing through digital games as quickly as possible, has in recent years been elevated into something between a virtuosic form of fingers-and-thumbs athletics and a highly technical science. The best speedruns reduce epic games meant to take dozens of hours to single-digit minutes through a combination of exploiting glitch-enabled shortcuts and inhuman skill.
In a talk at the recent Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, Allan Cecil planned to present what he alleges is evidence that a speedrunning record for the 1996 PC game Diablo, which has stood for more than 15 years and holds a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records, was in fact the result of rule-breaking techniques that should disqualify it.
Cecil recently came on the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast and spoke to us about speedrunning.
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