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The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that's stood for 15 years.
Speedrunning, it turns out, is plagued with fake records set by cheaters who splice together video clips to falsify evidence or use rule-breaking software to gain unfair advantages. If Cecil and the team of investigators who have worked with him over recent months succeed at tearing down that seemingly untouchable benchmark, it will be the third such high-profile speedrun that he'll have helped to debunk, and the second in just the last year. The night before Cecil's Defcon talk, Maselewski wrote in a final email to WIRED that he believes those alleging that he cheated are using faulty tools with an incomplete picture of Diablo's complexities.
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