The Security Mentor

Usually. Usually they're in a hurry and motivated to do as good a job as they can and meet an impossible schedule.



But sometimes they play games and sometimes that costs money. This article
describes allegations that some gambling machines had hidden features
in their programming that would allow people in the know to make them
pay out on command. Ick.



Stop and think about that. Those are machines that the casinos buy and
inspect, and those machines have a back door that costs the casinos
real money. The casinos couldn't stop that from happening.



Electronic voting machines are going to need a lot of scrutiny before
we can trust them. There's big money in stealing an election, more than
you could make by ripping off gambling machines.