- Charlie Arnold
"RIOT is a database that aggregates scraped comms data.
Using it, Resistance agents can query:
- all the portals belonging to a specified agent, including the dates on which those portals were captured
- upcoming Guardian portal candidates for a given region
- an agent's home portal and start date
Additional applications exist that enable authorized RES agents to:
- launch their own distributed scraping engines
- receive real time alerts on data not available via intel review, such as VRLA and hack mod deployment
- identify clusters of L7 and L8 portals (farms)
The functionality that drives these features and their use are violations of the Niantic Terms of Service.
A minimum of 680 RES agents are currently making use of these features. They include Niantic employees, Vanguards, and anomaly POCs.
Here are some examples:
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Here is a list of all RES agents currently using these features
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Here is complete screenshot evidence documenting these claims:
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