Re:US lottery security boss charged with fixing draw
by tptacek on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:45PM
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The defense here has their work cut out for them:
* Employees of the Multi-State Lottery Commission are not allowed to play the lotto at all.
* This guy runs infosec for the Multi-State Lottery Commission.
* He is on camera buying what turns out to be a $14MM winning ticket.
* The prize for that ticket was claimed by a Belize-registered company the day before the ticket was to expire.
* The defendant was more or less caught modifying the camera settings for the safe room for the lotto-generating computer systems specifically for the day he was in that safe room.
The rest of the stuff about "rootkits" and "USB drives" and other theories of the crime seem like a red herring. The winning ticket is a smoking gun. Even if, in violation of the rules of his job, he'd played the lotto every day of his life, it would still be so statistically overwhelmingly likely that the ticket was bogus that no reasonable person could acquit. But I'm guessing it's going to turn out that this is one of the only times since he got the job that he played lotto.
* Employees of the Multi-State Lottery Commission are not allowed to play the lotto at all.
* This guy runs infosec for the Multi-State Lottery Commission.
* He is on camera buying what turns out to be a $14MM winning ticket.
* The prize for that ticket was claimed by a Belize-registered company the day before the ticket was to expire.
* The defendant was more or less caught modifying the camera settings for the safe room for the lotto-generating computer systems specifically for the day he was in that safe room.
The rest of the stuff about "rootkits" and "USB drives" and other theories of the crime seem like a red herring. The winning ticket is a smoking gun. Even if, in violation of the rules of his job, he'd played the lotto every day of his life, it would still be so statistically overwhelmingly likely that the ticket was bogus that no reasonable person could acquit. But I'm guessing it's going to turn out that this is one of the only times since he got the job that he played lotto.