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Niantic Labs Banned Pokemon Go API Developers - PokemonGOCP.com

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Niantic Labs sent out a cease-and- desist letter to Pokemon Go API developers last weekend and is now into the next step of preventing APIs and third-party sites from tapping into Pokemon Go.

Most trackers and bots of Pokemon Go relies on a reverse engineered library of APIs. However, the developers of these trackers were not served with cease-and- desist letters, unlike PokeVision, so they are now working up a sweat in updating the APIs to get them up and running again.

Source: Twitter.com / Cease-and-Desist Letter Reposted Online

From a report published by The Verge, one of the user who received Niantic’s letter is Mila432, a github user and a Pokemon Go API developer, claims to have found a way to make his API active again, though he was hit by the cease-and- desist letter and will not publicize his solution to the Niantic ban.

Anyway, Mila432 published a video on Youtube which proves he did find a fix for Pokemon Go’s new security measure. Here’s his video:

https://youtu.be/WhryILX3NI0

Many developers are urging Mila432, Vasily in real life and a computer science student based in Penza, Russia, to share his solution. Others are also stating that he is safe in Russia from Niantic’s lawyers. For safety measures, Niantic should definitely hire this guy instead of having him as a threat to their security measures.

This security upgrade that Niantic has is called “unknown6”. A key that developers are trying to replicate by scouring the latest Pokemon Go app release to pinpoint how the app is generating the said key.

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Having its security bumped up is something that Niantic needed to do in order to protect  the whole of the servers infrastructure. Being a cloud based app, Pokemon Go is prone to hackers with bad intentions — especially, players who want the easy way and that cheat their way through the game.

In the future, let’s hope that Niantic will release an API that will allow developers to build  apps, though that’s far from soon most likely. For now, the “unknown6” issue has been  solved by some developers — hopefully these claims are true. We just have to wait for  Niantic’s official API. At least we get to witness this war waging against Niantic and untrusted developers.