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Cheat Your Friends at a Fair Coin Toss! (Ep#131 Scam School School)

🔴 WE ARE LIVE! (Office Hours Day #236) While you wait for today’s deep dive, check out the new episode where Brian and Josh explore vintage electronics and the madness RadioShack used to sell kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP0pEayJs1c WATCH THE ORIGINAL SCAM SCHOOL EPISODE HERE: #131 Cheat your friends at a fair coin toss! ➔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMsa-qBlPIE THE HOOK: How do you guarantee a win in a perfectly fair game of heads or tails? Today on Scam School School, we’re heading back to the vault for Episode 131 to declassify "Cheat your friends at a fair coin toss!" We’re breaking down the mechanics of tactile illusion, auditory misdirection, and how to control the outcome of a supposedly random event right in front of your target's eyes. It’s a masterclass in exploiting baseline assumptions—the exact same conceptual framework we use in #wolfmasking to manipulate an adversary into trusting a system's output because they believe the underlying mechanics are completely uncompromised. PROJECTED TIME MAP (All times are approximate for today's live broadcast) 00:00 — Coffee & Intro Chatter 02:00 — WATCHING: "#131 Cheat your friends at a fair coin toss!" (Original 2010 Episode) 12:00 — PLACE YOUR BETS: Guess the original view count! 15:00 — VAULT COMMENTARY: Brian replies to the original comments 25:00 — THE MODERN ROGUE: RadioShack Used to Sell Kids This Madness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP0pEayJs1c 35:00 — THE INFINITE TICKET GLITCH: Breaking down the WIRED report on how a hacker used Anthropic's Claude to uncover a massive vulnerability in Front Gate, allowing them to issue tickets to almost every major US music festival - https://www.wired.com/story/claude-helped-a-hacker-find-a-way-to-issue-tickets-to-almost-every-us-music-festival/ 50:00 — THE SCAMPOCALYPSE: AI-assisted vulnerability discovery. How LLMs are being weaponized not just to write exploit code, but to map out business-logic flaws and mint high-value trust artifacts like official tickets. 01:00:00 — Hard Out RESOURCES & THE BEATING HEART The Modern Rogue: https://www.youtube.com/@modernrogue Scam School: https://www.youtube.com/@scamschool Join the Scampocalypse (Email): https://signup.scamstuff.com Get the Gear: https://scamstuff.com ABOUT SCAM SCHOOL SCHOOL: Brian Brushwood is opening the vaults. Every day, we revisit the classic episodes that put Scam School on the map—revealing the production secrets, the logic behind the cons, and how these "small" scams have evolved into global cybersecurity strategies. #ScamSchool #BarBets #SocialEngineering #Wolfmasking #Scampocalypse #ModernRogue #BrianBrushwood #CyberSecurity #ScamNation