Insider Attack on Lottery Software
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Eddie Tipton, a programmer for the Multi-State Lottery Association, secretly installed software that allowed him to predict jackpots.
What’s surprising to me is how many lotteries don’t use real random number generators. What happened to picking golf balls out of wind-blown steel cages on television?
Tags: cheating, fraud, insiders, lotteries, random numbers
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