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The Internet Vigilante That Hunts Gaming's Biggest Cheaters

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

He's got the code it's going to launch.

0:07.0

It's a unit system.

0:12.0

I know this.

0:14.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:24.6

He's a vigilante that goes by the alias, GamerDoc.

0:27.6

He infiltrates secret online doldrums to hunt down wrongdoing in the dishonest who prey upon and exploit the system.

0:33.6

I never cared who you were.

0:36.6

And you were right? For shouldn't the people know the hero who saved them?

0:40.3

The hero can be anyone.

0:42.3

His target, you might ask, the many cheating gamers out there using code to be really good

0:46.8

at titles like Valorant and Overwatch, because there's a huge underbelly of cheating gamers

0:51.7

out there who trade and sell gaming exploits, the zero days

0:55.5

of video games, to get to God mode level skill without the hours of practice. Believe it or not,

1:01.1

cheaters and hackers are a huge problem for gaming companies. And today, we have motherboard reporter

1:05.6

Lorenzo Franceschi Bikarai on the show to tell us about the infamous cheater hunter, GamerDoc.

1:11.6

We interviewed GamerDoc and you'll be hearing his take on things as Lorenzo and I unpacked

1:15.8

this story.

1:17.3

I'm Ben Maku and this is Cyber.

1:23.6

Hello, Lorenzo.

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