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Valorant’s anti-cheat has a hidden message to recruit hackers

If you’re looking to build a team to stop people hacking your game, why not reach out to the people who are trying to hack your game? That’s an idea Riot Games had withValorantandLeague Of Legends, hiding a little recruitment message inside part of their anti-cheat system. If you’re poking around in their gameguts, they might be interested in your skills.

And Motherboard showed the message even has some ASCII art for that hacker/code cracker/slacker aesthetic:

Riot have made a big show of fighting cheats inValorant, with theirtheir controversial anti-cheat ‘Vanguard’hooking deep into your PC to police it. Despite this, wrong’uns are managing to make wallhacks and aimbots for it. Cheat vs. anti-cheat is an endless arms race (still being fought withlawsuitsandsoftwarein far older games) but perhaps some folks might be interested in going legit.

Not as subtle as recruiting World War 2 codebreakersthrough the Telegraph’s cryptic crossword, mind.