It is nearly impossible to enjoy online multiplayer games such as Counter Strike without coming across a cheater or a hacker every so often. Most players eventually get to accept it as a fact of life and ignore it while others develop an often-fruitless habit of reporting the cheating incidents they encounter to game admins. Of course game development companies have poured hundreds of thousands of man hours into developing anti-cheat systems such as the one found in Steam; nonetheless hackers are still able to create undetectable cheating tools in an ever going cycle of cat and mouse. Perhaps the anti-cheat systems have only succeeded in driving the price of cheat tools up and giving hackers more intensive to work on them.
While most gamers got accustomed to the Wild West nature of non-professional multiplayer matches in games like Counter Strike, one player eventually got so frustrated he decided to take matters into his hands as a vigilante.
As an act against Counter Strike: Global Offensive cheaters, Reddit user AndroidL created a trio of fake hacks that promised everything from unlimited ammo and health to auto aim while in fact they were designed to trigger the game's anti cheat system and entice it to ban the player. The first 2 hacks were designed as time bombs that provoke the anti-cheat system after a certain time while the third one netted its user an instant ban.
The honeypots were so sweet, they lured more than 5,500 cheaters in 3 days.
To be objective, AndroidL's actions fit the technical definition of entrapment but that didn't deter Reddit community from cheering him and having a good laugh at the wannabe cheaters who tried to complain on different forums.
