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CanSpice on Oct 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich

According to Wikipedia, Harris's slot machine hack wasn't discovered. He turned to Keno, finding a flaw in the pseudorandom number generator, and when his accomplice went to cash in a high-value winning ticket in New Jersey, the casino got suspicious, alerted investigators, and everything came out after that.

giarc on Oct 7, 2014 [–]

Interesting. Sounds like a lot of these people get caught when they either get too greedy, or when they try to expand too much.

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