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From the DEFCON presentation I mentioned elsewhere, it also seems like if he hadn't flubbed up and tried to claim the 16.5 million dollar prize, he (and his fri
by ergothus 8y ago
From the DEFCON presentation I mentioned elsewhere, it also seems like if he hadn't flubbed up and tried to claim the 16.5 million dollar prize, he (and his friends/family) wouldn't have been caught at all.
I can't believe he put the code in when he knew it would be audited, but then I doubly can't believe he would poke them to take a second look by suggesting something odd was involved at all.
- giarc 8y agoFrom the original article here, it sounds like if he hadn't talked with the cashier at the Qwikstop he would be fine.
- tedunangst 8y agoOr if the intermediary had simply said they forgot what they were wearing.
- giarc 8y agoYa I don't know why they would have tried to guess (unless Eddie told him the wrong info by mistake). It was nearly 1 year prior and no one would expect someone to remember what they were wearing when they walked into a gas station on a random Wednesday.