A man who helped write the computer code behind several U.S. lotteries, including some of its biggest, pleaded guilty Thursday to masterminding a scheme through which he rigged the winning numbers for jackpots in several states and collected millions of dollars. Eddie Tipton, who worked for the Multi-State Lottery Association from 2003 until 2015 and was its computer information security director for his last two years there, appeared in a Des Moines courtroom, where he pleaded guilty to one count of ongoing criminal conduct and publicly acknowledged his lead role in the scheme for the first time.
"I wrote software that included code that allowed me to understand or technically predict winning numbers, and I gave those numbers to other individuals who then won the lottery and shared the winnings with me," Tipton said when asked by Judge Brad McCall to explain what he did.
Just trying to be brief, figured others might remember or not, and could go to the full article.
This is why you must have SOURCE CODE To validate any system like this
But that statement is a bit misleading. He installed the flaw in the generation software, and it was triggered on the specific dates.
He knew the pattern for those dates, and that means, the numbers weren’t random, and therefore predictable by him.
People need to understand that -— he didn’t write code that ran on a local computer that predicted great numbers for those dates, or at least not without the counterpart code he installed in the generators.
I think the lottery as currently implemented can be predicted, but you will need your own quite advanced quantum computer to do so. Physics is very deterministic, unless you go to the quantum level, then physics itself becomes a lottery.