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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.

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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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