Cheating Automatic Toll Booths by Obscuring License Plates

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a variety of techniques drivers are using to obscure their license plates so that automatic readers can’t identify them and charge tolls properly. Some drivers ...

AI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading

A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong. The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives a email from ...

Hacking Pickleball

My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, has a lot of sports stories. Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage that doesn’t explicitly break the rules. Here’s an ...

Automatic Cheating Detection in Human Racing

| | cheating, sports, Uncategorized
This is a fascinating glimpse of the future of automatic cheating detection in sports: Maybe you heard about the truly insane false-start controversy in track and field? Devon Allen—a wide receiver for ...

Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged

My proof of COVID-19 vaccination is recorded on an easy-to-forge paper card. With little trouble, I could print a blank form, fill it out, and snap a photo. Small imperfections wouldn’t pose ...

Cheating at Professional Poker

| | cheating, gambling
Interesting story about someone who is almost certainly cheating at professional poker. But then I start to see things that seem so obvious, but I wonder whether they aren't just paranoia after ...
How To Get Unlimited Money In Asphalt 8! Windows 8/8.1

Hacking freemium games – the evolution of PC game cheating

| | cheating, freemium, games, Hacking
This post is going to be a rather strange post compared to previous ones. But bear with me, in the middle of the post you will see why this post fits the ...