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

[Andrew Cantino]

Awesome project, how can I help?

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Sai <sai at saizai.com> wrote:
> Registered and hosting parked.
>
> Simplest possible rails structure is in the repo:
> http://github.com/saizai/lotterycrack
>
> I'm thinking that /tickets/create would be a form with a dropdown
> selector for all the current games we know of, and below that, an
> approximate visual replication of that game. People just enter the
> numbers in the boxes, plus their zip/cost/win, and hit submit.
>
> For now it'd just get dumped into a datablob (so the view probably
> needs to do something naughty about labelling things) but I don't know
> what would be a good way to represent a variety of tickets yet so this
> is the stupid-but-flexible approach.
>
> When/if we have data we can figure out how to unpack those blobs into
> something saner to analyze / store.
>
> Your turn - make an input form for, say, the 'tic tac toe' game in
> that article. Commit it to repo root and I'll wire it up.
>
> Anyone else wanna join? Right now we'll need
> a) scans/pics of new types of games
> b) conversions of those pics to forms
>
> I can do the wiring up of forms to backend.
>
> Whee.
>
> - Sai
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