115: Player Cheater Developer Spy

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0	One year, I went to Defcon, the annual hacker conference, and at Defcon, there's something
0:05.5	called Roots.
0:06.5	It's basically Defcon Kids, where it's a whole village set up just for kids to learn how
0:11.2	to hack.
0:12.2	I ducked my head in there to check out the scene.
0:14.6	Kids were learning how to solder, how to pick locks, how to hack voting machines, and
0:19.8	how to hack websites.
0:21.4	There are talks in this Roots Village too, and there was a girl on stage, probably ten
0:27.0	years old, and she was talking about how she hacked a video game on her phone.
0:32.5	The game was some kind of farming game, where you have to plant your seeds and then wait
0:36.5	a certain amount of actual real days for the crops to grow.
0:40.2	Well, she didn't like having to wait, so she turned the clock forward on her phone, and
0:45.2	then got back in the game to see if the crops had grown at all, but they didn't.
0:49.0	There was some kind of check that the game was using to see if people were doing this,
0:53.9	but she didn't stop there.
0:55.4	She tried again.
0:56.4	At the time, she tried turning the Wi-Fi off on her phone, and then changing the clock.
1:01.4	And when she opened the game back up, boom, all her crops had fully grown.
1:06.6	She figured it out.
1:07.9	A ten-year-old figured out how to hack this farming game, which was one of the coolest
1:13.0	talks I've ever seen at Defcon.
1:20.4	These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.
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