“It’s kind of like the Allen wrench of gaming industry,” IGT Product Management Director Jacob Lanning said. One 2341 key can be used on slot machines manufactured by International Game Technology, Bally Technologies, WMS Industries, and others. Slot machine reset keys were considered an innocuous gaming industry tool until the Peppermill situation. The 2341 key cannot impact the game itself.”
“There are various levels of security to get in there. “That requires a whole different key that has to be signed out from security,” Barbee said. That task involves opening a slot machine to get into its inner workings. Jim Barbee, chief of the Control Board’s technology division, said state regulations require a casino to perform some level of hardware or software change to alter a game’s odds.
That day, the panel accepted the seven-figure fine paid by the Peppermill Casino after an employee was caught using a 2341 key to steal proprietary information, such as slot machine hold percentages, from 11 rival Northern Nevada casinos. Burnett told the Nevada Gaming Commission on Feb. “This key cannot access the brain box of a slot machine,” Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G.
