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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by emodendroket on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:59PM (#16996708)
The article suggests there was an audit that he had to get past, at least.

> From Tipton’s point of view, it was complicated. He had done something to see if he could do it. To his surprise, it worked. He said he inserted that code only once; after the code was approved by Gaming Laboratories International, machines containing it were shipped all over the country.

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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by astura on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:50PM (#16997666)
What good is an "audit" if it doesn't even catch the simplest of simple malicious code?
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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by jwilk on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:52PM (#16998215)
The auditors did only this:

- ran the RNG through statistical tests (which of course passed flawlessly)

- audited the source code (but the backdoor was in binaries…)

Source: DEFCON presentation linked elsewhere in comments.

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