Yeah, talk about a life-destroying addiction. The numbers the protagonists here were dropping in casinos are staggering.
That said, I'm glad they beat the charges. Considering finding a bug in the software you can exploit from the interface provided to be fraud and theft is ludicrous. God knows I don't get to penalize my end-users when they find a bug in my group's software (I wish I did).
Originally shared by +Les Jenkins:
Stories like this make me so glad I don't have a penchant for gambling.
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay | WIRED
Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine flashed,…
Very different from the guy that found a glitch in the Keno machines. Turns out, he found the glitch when he worked for a regulator and said that they could be exploited but the state approved them anyway. He made a LOT of money before going to jail.
+Scott Croom On what charges was he jailed?
Since he worked for the regulator, he was privy to inside knowledge. There was a specific thing in the law that said he could not use any knowledge he gained while working for the regulator.
Happens without bugs, too:
http://goo.gl/DEpMNQ
+The Bruce, Mile High Well, you could think of unshuffled cards as an analog bug — but, yes, the same thing. "This game didn't go the way we intended, so we don't want to pay out, and, in fact, would like to prosecute the people who tried to profit from the situation we presented them."