Video Poker “Hackers” Cleared of Federal Charges

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23 pointstrengrj3 comments

I enjoyed the original story in Wired.

I think you can argue that casinos are exploiting a 'bug' in some human's 'firmware'; a potential for addiction to gambling and a lack of understanding of probability.. So if someone is able to find and exploit a bug in the code behind your video poker machines, well too bad! Find it, fix it and accept it as a cost of doing business.

I think the most common bug in human's 'firmware' is being against to 'rich/big' and side with 'poor/small' even it is not logical at all.

This is from 2013, please add (2013) to the post title. Thanks.

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