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Video Poker “Hackers” Cleared of Federal Charges (wired.com)
23 points by trengrj on Sept 6, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 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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