Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr...
by defen on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:28PM
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Is there an explanation somewhere of the technical details of how he did it?
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr...
by dan000892 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:12PM
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The firm who investigated presented at DEFCON this year. Here's the PDF.
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...
Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr...
by mvidal01 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:45PM
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I found something here - https://www.casino.org/news/eddie-tipton-lottery-fraudster-r...
Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr...
by albinofrenchy on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:38AM
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> Investigators who examined the random number generator for the Wisconsin random number generator concluded it contained two extra bits of coding that instructed it to produce Tipton’s numbers on just three days of the year.
Super unfortunate wording. I spent a second wondering how you could encode that much precision in two 'bits'.
This seems like a good case for open source; and pay bounties for anything untoward. I really am curious what the code looks like for this.