"Hot Lotto" Lottery Drawing Rigged Using Root Kit ?

[Monroe]

Anybody following this possile rigging of a big lottery game called Hot Lotto using a USB drive with a "root kit" on it to have his numbers come out for a $14.3 million jackpot prize. He had access to the equipment ... so are these lottery games trustworthy ???

 

"Authorities believe Tiptop used a USB flash drive to install a self-deleting computer program to give him the numbers he needed to win big. Tipton was “obsessed” with these kinds of programs, known as root kits, co-workers told prosecutors."

 

Lottery Employee Rigged $14.3 Million Win for Himself on Iowa Ticket

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lottery-employees-rigged-14-3-win-officials-article-1.2185601

 

... this is from another article at Lottery Post ...

 

"Prosecutors countered this motion by claiming they have a "prima facie," or at first glance, case that Tipton tampered with lottery equipment.

 

In their reply to the defense's motion, prosecutors argued that Tipton's co-workers said he "was 'obsessed' with root kits, a type of computer program that can be installed quickly, set to do just about anything, and then self-destruct without a trace." The prosecution claimed a witness will testify that Tipton told him before December 2010 that he had a self-destructing root kit."

 

BOMBSHELL: MUSL employee Might Have Rigged Hot Lotto Computerized Drawing

 

http://www.lotterypost.com/news/288274

 

... so this guy got caught but have other "computerized" drawings also been rigged ???

Edited April 15, 2015 by monroe

[vinifera]

all I know I never won

[NoelC]

Who's running a purely computerized lotto?  The respectable lottos I know of have physical air-floated balls and bonded witnesses to the drawing.

 

For the computerized games, it seems to me the chance of a random person choosing the very same numbers that the "fix" will choose is just as good as any other.  You'd just have to share the prize with the hacker of the day.

 

-Noel