{"id":1220,"date":"2003-08-18T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T15:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/18\/casinos-go-high-tech-to-counter-counte"},"modified":"2003-08-18T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2003-08-18T15:23:20","slug":"casinos-go-high-tech-to-counter-counters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/18\/casinos-go-high-tech-to-counter-counters\/","title":{"rendered":"Casinos Go High-Tech to Counter Counters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a676'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/flush.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"126\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"11\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"278\">Casinos have long been waging a losing battle against brainiac<br \/>\n      cheaters known as &quot;card counters&quot;.&nbsp; Now a new program named<br \/>\n      Mindplay MP21, which works by placing a set of 14 digital cameras around<br \/>\n      the table which remember<br \/>\n      every card in play by reading special invisible ink printed on them, has<br \/>\n      given them the upper hand.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">\n<p>The system  is designed to automatically<br \/>\n        track and analyze the play and betting patterns of every gambler at the<br \/>\n    table in real time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/games\/0,2101,60049,00.html\">from Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Casinos have long been waging a losing battle against brainiac cheaters known as &quot;card counters&quot;.&nbsp; Now a new program named Mindplay MP21, which works by placing a set of 14 digital cameras around the table which remember every card &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/18\/casinos-go-high-tech-to-counter-counters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}