{"id":5981,"date":"2017-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/europe\/online-casino-mathematician-turned-into-a-hacker\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T00:00:00","slug":"online-casino-mathematician-turned-into-a-hacker","status":"publish","type":"europe","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/europe\/online-casino-mathematician-turned-into-a-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Casino: Mathematician turned into a hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">Late last autumn, a Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex decided he&rsquo;d had enough of running his eight-year-old business.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/contenidos\/puntos-venta-online-1.gif\" alt=\"punto online\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">He pined for the days when he could devote himself solely to tinkering with code, his primary passion. The time had come for an exit strategy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">What Alex did was reverse engineering the algorithms or number generators that govern how slot machine games behave.&nbsp;&nbsp; And with this knowledge, Alex was able to predict when certain games are most likely to spit out money. <a href=\"\/europa\/russia-seeks-to-see-flourishing-primorsky-krai-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #00f; text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">(READ SO: RUSSIA SEEKS TO SEE FLOURISHING PRIMORSKY KRAI GAMBLING)<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"5\">He would later share this knowledge with a legion of agents who would roam casinos from Poland to Macau to Peru in search of slots whose PRNGs have been deciphered by Alex.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">They (the agents) use phones to record video of a vulnerable machine in action, then transmit the footage to an office in St. Petersburg. There, Alex and his assistants analyze the video to determine when the games&rsquo; odds will briefly tilt against the house. They then send timing data to a custom app on an agent&rsquo;s phone; this data causes the phones to vibrate a split second before the agent should press the &ldquo;Spin&rdquo; button. 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