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The Las Vegas Sphere was powered down during the recent DEFCON conference.

Nothing was officially stated, but it was rumored they didn’t want to risk anything like this happening.

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Has anyone modelled the most obvious content onto that largest hemispherical LED display in the world?

Yep!

https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/wp-content/uploads/2023/07...

You read my mind!

I feel like they could have done a better job at faking a depth map though.

They should hook this up to flight data for the nearby airport. Have it watch the incoming planes.

I was there and watched it display scenes before during and after DEFCON. One of my extended online friendlies started a goof post on Reddit with a $300 reward. There were so many people who claimed they could hack it or would hack it this year and.. no one did.

Knowing casinos, it's pretty likely that they actually have good security.

You can't hack a dumb power switch (or what I assume is a giant breaker)

Yes you can. It's called turning it back on. Getting there is the challenge, but it's not as if defcon is only about digital security

My grandfather owns an RSA decryption tool. He calls it a wrench

Pedantically speaking, that's more of a key extraction tool than a decryption tool as such.

Most efficient, though.

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