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Lottery Officials Probed |
Hero hacker exposes nationwide lottery corruption |
(Wash, DC--Jul 13, 2009) In an ever widening federal probe, lottery officials in 15 states are facing federal corruption charges stemming from the manipulation of state computers to favor outcomes in which they had a vested interest. The scheme was discovered when a hitherto little known hacker, using tools readily available on the internet, bypassed the network security systems in two southern states and discovered that the random scripts which were supposed to operate the computers were not so random, after all.
Zokob, as he likes to be a called is a member of the group, the Mullah-Mafias, an online group of hackers, phreakers and crackers based in New Jersey. Zokob refused to give this reporter his real name or age, but confirmed that he was under 21.
Dermott Dot , a longtime advocate for manual lotteries and the owner of a popular website devoted to lottery games, told this paper that he has long suspected the malfesance of the state officials, and had written a number of letters and complaints to state ombudsmen and to congressional investigators with no luck. he said this only confoirms his longtime fears.
Several players (as they like to call themselves) and members of the premier lottery portal in the world, Lottery Post were interviewed for this story and could not supress their jubilation at the news, in the hope that this will increase pressure on the states to revert to manual lottery drawings.
In related news President Clinton said the public's confidence in the gaming industry must be restored and is pushing Congress to pass national legislation to protect the public. Ms. Clinton said that the public should not lose faith in the games, and that the Federal Government would do all in its power to ensure that the integrity of state lotteries in the US was maintained.
Correspondent T. Ruth Teller , with additional reporting by N. Olies and Sohel P. Megod