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February 6, 2017 11:04 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GJAFyXMtCic/russias-slot-machine-bans-le.html
Russia's slot-machine bans let criminals buy machines on the cheap and reverse-engineer them
In 2009, then-PM Vladimir Putin engineered a Russian ban on slot machines in a bid to starve Georgian mafiyeh of funds, the resulting glut of used slots gave Russia's own criminal gangs cheap testbeds to use in a project to reverse-engineer the machines and discover their weaknesses -- now, Russian gangs roam the world's casinos, racking up careful, enormous scores. (more…)
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