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Remember the 2008 movie "21" starring Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Laurence Fishburne and Kate Bosworth?
The film revolved around the real-life story of a group of MIT students who went to Las Vegas, counted cards and made a fortune doing so.
Now thanks to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, many people could have the ability to re-enact scenes from that movie.
According to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, there is a new app for the two Apple devices which can count cards for blackjack fraud artists.
"California gaming authorities tipped off their Nevada counterparts to a blackjack card-counting program that can be used on either the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch portable music player," reported the LVRJ's Howard Stutz.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board subsequently sent out a memo warning of the new threat stating that the application "calculates the true count and does it significantly more accurately."
The LVRJ said that the application, which is downloaded via iTunes, uses four methods of card counting and will run even though the screen appears shut off; cheaters can access information if they know where the correct keys are.
"The $3.99 app has a feature, called stealth mode, that allows the user to easily operate the card counter with the phone concealed in a pocket," said an L.A. Times report.
"Simply press the right half of the screen when a card valued at 10 or higher appears on the table or the left half when a low card is flipped."
The phone then vibrates to inform the cheater when to bet heavily, the L.A. Times went on to say.
While actual card-counting isn't illegal in the state of Nevada, using a device to aid in card-counting is a felony and violators could face jail time.