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  • Insider Betting on Polymarket

    Insider Betting on Polymarket Insider trading is rife on Polymarket: Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—­defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less—­on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets on military and…

  • Hacking Polymarket

    Hacking Polymarket Polymarket is a platform where people can bet on real-world events, political and otherwise. Leaving the ethical considerations of this aside (for one, it facilitates assassination), one of the issues with making this work is the verification of these real-world events. Polymarket gamblers have threatened a journalist because his story was being used…

  • Rigged Poker Games

    Rigged Poker Games The Department of Justice has indicted thirty-one people over the high-tech rigging of high-stakes poker games. In a typical legitimate poker game, a dealer uses a shuffling machine to shuffle the cards randomly before dealing them to all the players in a particular order. As set forth in the indictment, the rigged…

  • Smashing Security podcast #441: Inside the mob’s million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble

    Smashing Security podcast #441: Inside the mob’s million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble Basketball stars have allegedly joined forces with the mafia to fleece high-rollers in a poker scam involving hacked shufflers, covert cameras, and an X-ray card table. Meanwhile, researchers have found they could poke around an FIA driver portal to pull…

  • The AI Fix #73: Google Gemini is a gambling addict, and how to poison an AI

    The AI Fix #73: Google Gemini is a gambling addict, and how to poison an AI In episode 73 of The AI Fix, AI now writes more web content than humans and more books by ex-British prime ministers than ex-British prime ministers. Mark eats a dodgy prawn, Google discovers a new pathway to treating cancer,…

  • That Time Tom Lehrer Pranked the NSA

    That Time Tom Lehrer Pranked the NSA Bluesky thread. Here’s the paper, from 1957. Note reference 3. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • Paddy Power and BetFair have suffered a data breach

    Paddy Power and BetFair have suffered a data breach Paddy Power and BetFair have warned customers that “an unauthorised third party” gained access to “limited betting account information” relating to up to 800,000 of their customers. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley

  • Casino Players Using Hidden Cameras for Cheating

    Casino Players Using Hidden Cameras for Cheating The basic strategy is to place a device with a hidden camera in a position to capture normally hidden card values, which are interpreted by an accomplice off-site and fed back to the player via a hidden microphone. Miniaturization is making these devices harder to detect. Presumably AI…