Hacking the JavaScript Lottery

Wed, 18 May 2016 14:03:15 -0400
computer, hacking, javascript

January 2016 boasted a Powerball jackpot of 1.5 billion dollars. This generated a lot of interest in the lottery and the Los Angeles Times released a simulator where you start with 100 dollars and play until that is gone. I had seen previous work for predicting Java’s Math.random() and thought it would be a fun project to replicate for the browser.... [Read more]