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I recommend the Darknet Diaries episode on how an IT guy discovered the Puerto Rico State lottery was being rigged: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/101/ http

• keyringlight 5y ago
  (Slight spoiler) The issue they found there was that the actual lottery draw was fine, it was the database that contained all the tickets purchased which was being tampered with
  • withinboredom 5y ago
    I always said it isn't only the numbers that need to be random, but the record of who owns those numbers needs to be perfect. Probably the "easiest" way to win the lottery is to be the janitor where they keep the servers, then just install a transparent SQL proxy on the wire and anytime someone asks what the winning numbers are, say it's you. It only has to work once.