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Originally Posted by Everest17
can't remember where I read it, but was about a bitcoin site that had their casino basically robbed of 1m+ from a hacker because they could predict the casino roulette spins or something and there was suspicion that there would be hackers on the poker side of things as well
I read the article, it appeared to be RNG prediction. The article was light on details on how they determined it was RNG, but the hackers won at such overwhelming rates in such a short time it was statistically impossible for them not to be cheating. The sites engineers slapped a fast patch on the RNG, but very quickly the hackers found another way to cheat them, which implies very strongly that it was an inside job.
If SWC bans a player for exploiting their RNG, they have to fix it ASAP and shouldn't let anyone play until they do. Otherwise it's trivial for the cheaters to create new accounts to cheat with, as SWC doesn't have any information on you other than your email account, and once you withdraw bitcoin it's very difficult to trace it back to you.
So the fact that they've not shut down the site or restricted new accounts means either
a) they did not catch anyone exploiting their RNG, or
b) that they are criminally sloppy in how they treat customers while they have an open security issue.
Even if it's something they patched in a few hours after discovery it's still awful they didn't admit it. And any patch done in a few hours isn't likely to be more trustworthy, thats no where near enough time for full testing and security flaw analysis to ensure you don't create new problems.