118: Hot Swaps

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This is the story of Joseph Harris (https://twitter.com/akad0c). When he was a young teen he got involved with stealing video game accounts and selling them for money. This set him on a course where he flew higher and higher until he got burned. Joseph sometimes demonstrates vulnerabilities he finds on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcuF5Zx6BiYmwnS-CiRAng. Listen to episode 112 “Dirty Coms” to hear more about what goes on in the communities Joseph was involed with. Sponsors Support for this show comes from Axonius. Securing assets — whether managed, unmanaged, ephemeral, or in the cloud — is a tricky task. The Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action. Axonius gives IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, decreasing incidents, and informing business-level strategy — all while eliminating manual, repetitive tasks. Support for this show comes from Synack. Synack is a penetration testing firm. But they also have a community of, people like you, who earn regular money by legally hacking. If you’re interested in getting paid to hack, visit them now at synack.com/red-team, and click ‘apply now.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I was in college, I had some interests, and among them were gambling and programming.
0:04.8	Specifically, I liked crafts, where you throw the dice and the pearl programming language.
0:09.8	Now, the thing about crafts is that there are so many different kinds of bets you can do.
0:13.6	It's a little dizzying how much there is, so I decided to make a little program that rolls the dice
0:18.4	thousands and millions of times to try to simulate the game to find an effective betting strategy.
0:25.3	First, I tried the typical betting strategy, putting money on the pass line, placing odds,
0:29.5	and then rolling the dice. After 100,000 rolls, the game showed that I had a massive amount of debt.
0:36.1	Definitely not a good strategy for the long run. So then I tried placing money right on numbers,
0:41.4	betting on the come line, the field, all the things. None had a positive result. All put me in debt,
0:47.9	which is expected, right? The house always wins. The game is designed that way. There's no way around it.
0:53.9	But maybe there was. I mean, the game of craps was invented in the 1700s, and they didn't have a
0:58.8	computer to simulate all the possible betting variations to see if one would work, right? So perhaps
1:04.4	my little program could discover some surefire betting strategy. One with a player always wins
1:11.1	in the long run. So I kept trying night after night, running new betting simulations and algorithms,
1:17.7	and trying to find something. And eventually I tried playing around with buy bets.
1:23.2	Buying the two or ten will result in double your money if it hits. And I ran this simulation 100,000 times.
1:29.6	And guess what? The program showed I'd made a positive amount of money. What? I ran it again.
1:37.1	And again, and it showed the betting strategy was working. This was a surefire way to make money in
1:42.8	craps in the long term. So I immediately went online, and I found an online casino, and I opened an
1:48.5	account and began betting this strategy. But it wasn't winning. I was losing money. And I noticed
1:55.0	something. I forgot to calculate the big. When you placed this bed, the house charges you 5% to buy it.
2:01.8	I didn't know that. So my program was wrong and gave me wrong results. But this made me think,
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