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Spotted at Bruce Schneier's blog is a link to a story on CNBC about an insider attack on the Multi-State Lottery Association by computer programmer Eddie Tipton.
After hitting the first ill-gotten jackpot in Colorado in 2005, Tipton began building himself a 4,800-square-foot (446-sq. meter) house with a movie theater and gym on 22 acres (9 hectares) with a pond outside of Des Moines. Over the course of the next six years, Tipton would go on to fix six more lottery games across five states, netting more than $2 million. Yet his employer trusted him so much that he was promoted in 2013 to head information security, placing him in charge of protecting the very lottery computer systems he had been cheating.
[...] Tipton admitted as part of his plea that in 2005 he added two extra routines to the computer coded[sic] that generated the random numbers, allowing him to predict numbers on specific drawing days.
[...] The Multi-State Lottery Association provides computers for lotteries in 33 states the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The computers are designed to randomly draw numbers in several games, including Powerball, Mega Millions and Hot Lotto. Players have sued the association alleging they were defrauded by Tipton's scheme.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @10:31PM (1 child)
I can't wait to read the emotionally manipulative sob story all about Eddie's terrible childhood and how he used his genius coder skills to cheat his way out of homeless poverty just like Michael David Crawford.
(Score: 5, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 23 2017, @11:21PM
Maybe you could get a part-time job - Wendy's is hiring, I Am Absolutely Serious.
That would enable you to buy some new clothes.
That might - _just_ might - enable you to enroll at your local Community College. I advise getting an Associate of Arts degree in Web Design. A friend of mine has such an AA and is quite successful at designing greatly-improved web sites for medical marijuana shops.
The web is booming these days, especially the mobile web. You are certain to find lots of contract clients.
Then you could afford an apartment so you can move out of your mother's basement.
You could even buy a new car. Then if you meet a cute girl you'd have a ride so you could pick her up for dates, and your own bed - no longer a couch! - so you could have your way with her.
Maybe, just maybe, if you got laid you'd become a nice person.
I Am Absolutely Serious.
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