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Computerized Betting System Proves Vulnerable

Posted by michael on from the risks-digest dept.

count3r writes "A front page article in today's New York Times reports that an employee of Autotote has been fired for (allegedly) hacking the system responsible for 65% of all horseracing bets in North America. The caper, if it is indeed a caper, resulted in a series of six bets that paid a total of $3,000,000 in last Saturday's Breeders' Cup."

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  1. Re:No registration by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Just wanted to say that I found the link in your sig to be useful. Thank you. :)

  2. Re:No registration by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "A user has given a Offtopic (-1) moderation to your comment, Re:No registration, attached to Computerized Betting System Proves Vulnerable. Your comment is currently scored (0)."

    Ah, over-zealous moderation of my parent post here.

    Know what bugs me? I turned off the +1 bonus to let that guy know that the programmer's cheat sheet link in his sig was helpful. I have no doubt that it was off-topic, but modding me down over being polite (and turning off the bonus) was shitty.

    I wasn't expecting to get modded up for it, but modding me down for it was a waste of moderation points.

    I don't care if this +2 followup gets me modded down or not. Frivolously modding me down forced me to to defend myself.