Since the player was making hundreds of simultaneous requests, it sounds like a race condition in the casino's server-seed mechanism where the player was able to get the server-seed of future bets.
Obviously, the server only wants to divulge the server-secret of closed-out bets so that you can verify them as provably fair.
Strange choice to put a picture from the Ocean's Eleven series at the top of the article, seeing as how the thieves in those films are considered the protagonists/heroes.
It's not so strange after reading a number of these HN comments.
I think the strangeness for me is that the article is written from the casino's perspective. They went so far as to dox the 'culprit' and are portraying him in a negative light in the article.
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Since the player was making hundreds of simultaneous requests, it sounds like a race condition in the casino's server-seed mechanism where the player was able to get the server-seed of future bets.
Obviously, the server only wants to divulge the server-secret of closed-out bets so that you can verify them as provably fair.
It's not so strange after reading a number of these HN comments.
I think the strangeness for me is that the article is written from the casino's perspective. They went so far as to dox the 'culprit' and are portraying him in a negative light in the article.
It looks like the attacker had some sort of celebrity status and fanfare throughout all of this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=843892.0 so maybe Ocean's Eleven isn't so far-fetched.