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Since the player was making hundreds of simultaneous requests, it sounds like a race condition in the casino's server-seed mechanism where the player was able t
by danneu 11y ago
Since the player was making hundreds of simultaneous requests, it sounds like a race condition in the casino's server-seed mechanism where the player was able to get the server-seed of future bets.
Obviously, the server only wants to divulge the server-secret of closed-out bets so that you can verify them as provably fair.
> Strange choice to put a picture from the Ocean's Eleven series at the top of the article, seeing as how the thieves in those films are considered the protagonists/heroes.
It's not so strange after reading a number of these HN comments.
- baakss 11y agoI think the strangeness for me is that the article is written from the casino's perspective. They went so far as to dox the 'culprit' and are portraying him in a negative light in the article.
- danneu 11y agoIt looks like the attacker had some sort of celebrity status and fanfare throughout all of this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=843892.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=843892.0 so maybe Ocean's Eleven isn't so far-fetched.