Last week, the US Justice Department published an indictment involving NBA stars and members of the mob for allegedly running a network of rigged gambling games. One of their rigging tactics was a manipulation of a Deckmate 2 automatic shuffling machine—almost identical to an experiment done by senior correspondent Andy Greenberg and his hacking crew for WIRED’s Hacklab . Hosts Michael Calore and Lauren Goode sit down with Andy to break down how the machines can be compromised, and what the vulnerabilities behind it say about our tech devices at large.

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