How hackers are revealing the hidden Pokemon Go monsters all around you

How hackers are revealing the hidden Pokemon Go monsters all around you | Ars Technica


'''The hack is the result of efforts by the PokemonGoDev subreddit, which is working to reverse engineer an API using the data sent and received by the Pokémon Go servers. So far, the group has managed to parse the basic server responses sent by the game, which can be acquired through an SSL tunnel and deciphered using relatively basic protocol buffers.'''

Yep, I knew this would happen, Pokemon is too much of a popular IP. Ingress didn't really entice many hackers.

I actually knew a nerd who played Ingress and had his own custom scriptz.

Pretty lame game though, Can't say that was cool nor was I impressed.

I haven't even installed pokemon go, but Day 1 I assumed scripts would be abused.

Kingz V wrote:

I actually knew a nerd who played Ingress and had his own custom scriptz.

Pretty lame game though, Can't say that was cool nor was I impressed.

I haven't even installed pokemon go, but Day 1 I assumed scripts would be abused.

I played Ingress when it was new. It was fun. Couldn't hold my interest like Pokemon Go has. Even with it being the same game. The few tweaks here and there have made all the difference.