Top, how a lottery insider rigged the results. Bottom, my NYT piece on cheating software and voting machines.pic.twitter.com/IS0rFUZpIt
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The lottery riggers only got caught because, well, they tried to collect lottery money, not because their cheating code was discovered.
Article on rigging the lottery software: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2016/04/06/lottery-scammers-brother-facing-criminal-charges/82690668/ … My NYT piece on the dangers of cheating software:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/volkswagen-and-the-era-of-cheating-software.html …
@zeynep Normally, people in a field want you to use their products. It's striking how many computer people are afraid of voting software.
@SteveBellovin Yep. In an ideal world, I'd prefer auditable solid electronic voting to paper—paper has a lot of error too. This world? No.
@zeynep @SteveBellovin Quoting VW engineers?
@zeynep look how long heart bleed existed, and consider stage fright. yay failure of openssl funding for audits
@weems yeah, heartbleed is my example to anyone who thinks this is easy, or open source is the answer. What, two lines of code for if/case?
@zeynep @SwiftOnSecurity it’s a hell of a lot harder if the code is in a version control system like SVN or got. With even minimal review.
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