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🗓️ 15 February 2022
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Roblox is one of the most popular and profitable video games ever created. Unless you’ve got kids, there’s a decent chance you’ve probably never heard of it. What makes it so engaging is that it’s a place where players develop and sell their own games and items. There is an internal economy and culture built around it. Roblox is, dare I say, a metaverse all its own.
Lurking at the edges of that metaverse is a group of people called Beamers. With so many items floating around the Roblox economy worth so much cash and so many of them owned by children. That’s a target an unscrupulous hacker can hardly pass up.
This week on Cyber, Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox walks us through the underground world of Roblox. It’s the subject of his newest piece, “How Roblox ‘Beamers’ Get Rich Stealing from Children.”
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0:00.0 | Tadden, it's got the code. It's going to launch. |
0:13.2 | It's a unit system. I know this. It's all the files of the whole park. It tells her everything. |
0:21.6 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. The Eagle One, the package is being delivered. |
0:27.3 | Hello out there in cyberspace. Roblox is one of the most popular and profitable video games ever created. |
0:35.0 | Unless you've got kids, there's a decent chance you've probably never heard of it. |
0:39.2 | Now, what makes it so engaging is that it's a place where players develop and sell their own |
0:43.6 | games and items. There's an eternal economy and culture that's built around it. Roblox is, |
0:49.8 | dare I say, a metaverse all its own. Now, lurking at the edges of this metaverse is a group of people called beamers. |
0:58.1 | You can see in our lovely photo there. |
0:59.9 | With so many items floating around the Roblox economy, with so much cash, and so many of them owned by children, |
1:06.8 | well, that is a target. |
1:08.9 | An unscrupulous hacker can hardly pass up. |
1:11.5 | I'm Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
1:15.0 | Here to walk us through what's going on is Motherboard Staff Writer Joseph Cox. |
1:18.8 | The Underworld, the underground world of Roblox is the subject of his newest piece on the site. |
1:23.9 | How Roblox Beemers get rich stealing from children. |
1:27.7 | J.C., thank you again so much for coming on to the show. |
1:30.8 | Thank you. |
1:31.7 | And my favorite topic, Roblox. |
1:34.3 | No. |
1:35.6 | The hacking around it is very interesting. |
1:37.7 | How long have you? |
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