I am reminded of an article about a poker site:
"There are 52-factorial ways to shuffle a deck of cards, but the site's PRNG only has 32 bits of state. 4 billion is alarmingly less than 52-factorial! But even worse, the PRNG is seeded using the number of milliseconds since midnight. 86 million is alarmingly less than 4 billion!"
So the actual entropy on the card table was equivalent to about 5 cards' worth. After seeing the 2 cards in his hand, and the 3 cards in the flop, he could use a program to solve for every other card in everyone's hand and in the entire deck!
(I may have mixed up many details - If anyone has an archive of the article please post it!)
I assume you're talking about
https://web.archive.org/web/20140210072712/http://www.laurad...
Previously on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207851