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The title on HN at the moment ("Engineer finds...") doesn't match the article, and distorts the original. Should be fixed by the mods. Also (2017). There's no
by acqq 8y ago
The title on HN at the moment ("Engineer finds...") doesn't match the article, and distorts the original. Should be fixed by the mods. Also (2017).
There's no "an engineer" who "finds" anything but "engineer" as a verb, the title is: "Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat---And Casinos Have No Fix" which means something like "Russians design a cheat" or "Russians construct a cheat."
On the topic of "casinos have no fix", it seems that the casinos have FBI protecting them and the other ways of control, which is obviously enough of a fix for them.
- Rjevski 8y agoThis seems to only be a fix for the greedy people that keep coming back and raise suspicion. A casual player that cheats once and cashes out would be undetected.
- acqq 8y ago> A casual player that cheats once Obviously doesn't exist in the case like this: it is an organized effort depending on specific steps and now that the technique is known, it's easy to detect such attempts by the casinos. If the casinos would estimate that the danger is too big to them they would have stopped using these models or consider some kind of upgrade, so they are obviously OK.
- sctb 8y agoWe've updated the title from “Engineer finds slot machine cheat. Casinos unable to fix”.