Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme
by KMag on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:05PM
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It's too late to edit, but I swear I know the difference between ad and add.
On a side note, I thought a naive shuffle with a well-seeded cryptographic-quality pseudorandom number generator was the most likely finding from his poker bot history archive. I thought the linear congruential generator and seeding with the current time were long shots. I was just hoping that the skewed distribution gave a measurable edge over bots and players that were playing under the assumption of a uniform distribution of cards.
Had I thought there was a reasonable probability of a popular poker site using a LCRNG seeded with the current time, I would have been much more persistent in my requests for the history data.
On a side note, I thought a naive shuffle with a well-seeded cryptographic-quality pseudorandom number generator was the most likely finding from his poker bot history archive. I thought the linear congruential generator and seeding with the current time were long shots. I was just hoping that the skewed distribution gave a measurable edge over bots and players that were playing under the assumption of a uniform distribution of cards.
Had I thought there was a reasonable probability of a popular poker site using a LCRNG seeded with the current time, I would have been much more persistent in my requests for the history data.