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From "Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix" [0]: > Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a
by jlgaddis 9y ago
From "Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix" [0]:
> Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.
> "The normal reaction time for a human is about a quarter of a second, which is why they do that,” says Allison, who is also the founder of the annual World Game Protection Conference.
[0]: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/ https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-sl...
- kevmo314 9y agoSometimes I wonder if it would be called cheating if you could do the math to figure out the PRNG parameters in your head, then calculate the next known timestamp. It seems similar in premise to Ethereum contracts, where an "exploit" is technically just following the contract.