What does RANU stand for?

Christian Grant managed to override the random number generator at Gala Bingo, calling out numbers he knew were on cards bought by two different girlfriends, Samantha Temple and Nandi Ndebele.

Slot machines use Random Number Generators (RNG's) to continuously cycle through numbers used to generate a play's result, and this is occurring even when the machine is not being played.

Christian Grant was working for Gala Bingo when he hatched the plan to override the random number generator.

Centrelink's 27,000 staff currently use random number generators for access control, but the agency is migrating to a PKI certificate-based smart card system later this year.

The machines are virtually indistinguishable from slot machines, except they are controlled by a single random number generator housed in a central state computer and they select winning prizes differently.

Signals from two lasers are combined into a single, truly random number sequence.

But Mr Clarke blasted the data as "living up to its reputation of being a random number generator" and claimed the real picture was much worse.

Paper topics include vulnerability modeling for the analysis of network attacks, fuzzy strategies in modeling effects of technological implementations, dependability in e-learning systems, a true random number generator with attack detection, verification and implementation of dependable computers, Non-centralized key pre-distribution in networks, anomaly-based intrusion detection using Bayesian networks, aspects of maintenance of compiled programs, constraint and test verification in parallel database systems, and the dependability of fault-tolerant Adder structures.