[Noisebridge-discuss] Exploitable statistical vulnerability in scratchoff lottery tickets

Sai sai at saizai.com
Wed Feb 2 04:22:04 UTC 2011


LMK your github acct and I'll add you as committer.

How about lotterycrack.com? :)

- Sai

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:49, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm near Atlantic City currently, with access to Philly if people are
> interested in scratchoffs from there. The website idea is a good one,
> crowdsourcing would streamline the process if we could get people
> interested.  I can do graphics/css but probably don't have the time to do a
> full front-end integration.
>
> I'm game if you are =)
>
> Griffin Boyce
> +1-609-445-4127
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Sai <sai at saizai.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd be willing to chip in a few for analysis from Chicago.
>>
>> I'm guessing though that what we'd want to do is to set up a website
>> with a form that looks like the ticket, and ask people to type in
>> their own. Collect a whole bunch and analyze. :)
>>
>> Wanna? I'd be willing to work on this a bit and provide the hosting &
>> backend. Would help if someone else could do the GUI.
>>
>> - Sai
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:22, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > It could be interesting to replicate this test with tic-tac-toe lottery
>> > cards from different states.  Assuming they haven't patched it or
>> > withdrawn
>> > the cards everywhere.
>> >
>> > Griffin
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Sai <sai at saizai.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1
>> >>
>> >> I wonder how long it'll take the vendor to patch. AIUI they serve a
>> >> large chunk of the continent's scratchoff ticket supply w/ the same
>> >> algorithm.
>> >>
>> >> Enjoy,
>> >> Sai
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