Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix
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Pretty interesting.
What confuses me is the 'timing' they speak of.
It sounds like they're referring to manually stopping the lines, I wasn't aware machines like this were still being used... Or are they referring to 'start your next spin in .25 seconds'?
[QUOTE=Jebus;51793101]Pretty interesting.
What confuses me is the 'timing' they speak of.
It sounds like they're referring to manually stopping the lines, I wasn't aware machines like this were still being used... Or are they referring to 'start your next spin in .25 seconds'?[/QUOTE]
[quote=the full article]Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.[/quote]
It's when you start the spin.
Hm thought as much but saw different quotes that made it sound like different things.
Pretty crazy to think, I wonder how much changes in the newer machines... Obviously they have different methods to generate their numbers but I wonder how much harder they would be to decode.
[QUOTE=Article]So the onus will be on casino security personnel to keep an eye peeled for the scam’s small tells. A finger that lingers too long above a spin button may be a guard’s only clue that hackers in St. Petersburg are about to make another score.[/QUOTE]
Security hardly even bothers with slots in Casinos, at least the one where I used to work, they don't even mention cheating on slots during training. They're more concerned with catching cheats on table games and people laundering drug money, that's what costs them the most. Nobody launders money through a slot machine.
[QUOTE=ultra_bright;51790769]This is basically the same thing as card counting, what is illegal about mathematically figuring out when to stop the slot machine?[/QUOTE]
I mean, I get what you're saying, but basically this is illegal because it makes big influential companies in an economic oligarchy make less money
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;51791615]Lot of people already do this. The thing about slots is that after watching for about twenty minutes, you can easily predict where the machines will go and when to click to get the right lines.[/QUOTE]
I really don't think this is true, bar for some really ancient mechanical slot machines. I admit I'm not much of a casino slots guy but pretty much in all the video slot machines what you see barely has any connection to what you get. In the sense that your result is determined the moment you press the button and the spinning and flashing lights are just for show that have no bearing on the outcome. In fact the reels are not even real reels which follow a specific pattern most of the time, they are just images that appear randomly.
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