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TIL Federal prosecutors built a hacking case against a John Kane, a man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor glitch in a video poker machine. Kane’s lawyer said, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They won

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