{"id":2285,"date":"2013-03-19T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2013-03-19T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T12:46:18","slug":"casino-cheats-used-house-cctvs-to-score-32m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/03\/19\/casino-cheats-used-house-cctvs-to-score-32m\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino cheats used house CCTVs to score $32M"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>\nA rich, high-stakes gambler was dragged out of his opulent comp suite at the  Crown Towers casino in Melbourne, accused of participating in a $32M scam that made use of the casino&#8217;s own CCTV cameras to cheat.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Herald Sun understands remote access to the venue&#8217;s security system was given to an unauthorised person.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nImages relayed from cameras were then used to spy on a top-level gaming area where the high roller was playing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSignals were given to him on how he should bet based on the advice of someone viewing the camera feeds. Sources said the total stolen was $32 million.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey are capable of transmitting the most intricate detail of goings-on inside the building.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nCasinos were the world leaders in CCTV use, and really represent ground zero for the panopticon theory of security. What is rarely mentioned is that &#8220;security&#8221; measures can be turned against defenders if attackers can hijack them. This is as true when a mugger uses his victim&#8217;s gun against him as it is when a casino&#8217;s own CCTVs are used to defeat its own anti-cheating measures. This is the high-stakes gambling version of all those IP-based CCTVs that leak sensitive footage of the inside of peoples&#8217; houses onto the public Internet.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/law-order\/crown-casino-hi-tech-scam-nets-32-million\/story-fnat79vb-1226597666337\">Crown casino hi-tech scam nets $32 million<\/a> [Mark Buttler\/Herald Sun]<\/p>\n<p>\n(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">\/.<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/ziACE80Pknk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via Boing Boing <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/03\/18\/the-cameras-at-crown-are-state.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/03\/18\/the-cameras-at-crown-are-state.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rich, high-stakes gambler was dragged out of his opulent comp suite at the Crown Towers casino in Melbourne, accused of participating in a $32M scam that made use of the casino&#8217;s own CCTV cameras to cheat. The Herald Sun understands remote access to the venue&#8217;s security system was given to an unauthorised person. Images &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/03\/19\/casino-cheats-used-house-cctvs-to-score-32m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Casino cheats used house CCTVs to score $32M&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[126,201,6],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-boing-boing","tag-cory-doctorow","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-AR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}