AccountInQuestion the video is worthless. However the article states that the programmers claim that they accessed the camera from that USB port and were able to then know what cards would come out.
You are right that as far as anything else beyond this camera access, with regards to either the Deckmate 1 or 2, they simply state that it COULD be done, but did not do it.
The strange thing is though, even with regards to that access to camera claim, if you look online including at that article it is very strangely reported - the article states that the team "will present the results" later today "at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas." I haven't found any direct account of what exactly was presented, not will be presented.
And in any case what they did took some luck - when they bought the testing machines they were GIVEN the password to access (for maintenance and update purposes) - and a lot of time, under laboratory conditions. And even then all they were able to access (supposedly) is the camera, there was no further hacking done.
And, even if you read closely what they CLAIM they SHOULD be able to do, with regards to the Deckmate 1, they claim that it could be reprogrammed, if someone could get physically into the chip, to say, reorder the cards or not shuffle the cards at all. But they never even try to do that, just say it could be done.
Anyway, I'll admit that the reason I wasted the time on this is to see if what UNKewlJ was saying on the first post of this thread was true about that you do not even need a programmer or backed up his claim of being able to hack his own shuffling machine in a few minutes - it was not true a whole team of programmers was needed / did not back up his claim - all this took a lot of luck (had the password) and time (under laboratory conditions) and resulted in camera access only.
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