They knew when to hold em. Knew when to fold 'em. Just not when to walk away and when to run.

  • ftothe3@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Why on earth would they have an exposed USB port on these things!?

    • johan@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Bizarre. But the article outlines a lot more vulnerabilities. Seems like every part of this device is poorly secured.

      IOActive’s hacking technique exploited glaring security vulnerabilities they found in the shufflers, the researchers say: They bought their own Deckmates for testing from second-hand sellers, one of whom told them a password used for maintenance or repair. They found that this password and others they extracted from the Deckmates’ code were configured in the shuffler with no easy way to change them, suggesting they likely work on almost any Deckmate in the wild. They also found that the most powerful “root" password to control the shuffler—which, like all the Deckmate’s passwords, they declined to publicly reveal—was relatively weak.

      This is just ridiculous / hilarious.

    • Urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      A lot of these devices rely on security by obscurity and the fact that casinos have lots of cameras. Also, casinos expect any significant coordination between players and employees is caught eventually, because people are human and under film from multiple angles. Cheaters usually get greedy so they’re easy to spot, because they don’t know when to get out and some just can’t help bragging anyway.

      A lot of casinos are publicly traded so they’re cheap as hell. The burden of dealing with cheap awful hardware/software is placed squarely on the employee’s shoulders. “Corporate” thinks it understands security but will always buy stuff like this without consulting anyone that knows what they’re doing.

      This particular device isn’t something you’d be able to access easily, you’d have to be an employee or risk being spotted screwing around with the machine. Or have a vendor badge ;)