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Researchers Reprogram Voting Machine To Run Pac-man

Posted by samzenpus on from the vote-cherry-this-year dept.

Philom writes "Numerous scientific studies have demonstrated that electronic voting machines can be reprogrammed to steal votes, so when researchers Alex Halderman and Ari Feldman got their hands on a machine called the Sequoia AVC Edge, they decided to do something different: they reprogrammed it to run Pac-Man. As states move away from insecure electronic voting, there's a risk that discarded machines will clog our landfills. Fortunately, these results show that voting machines can be recycled to provide countless hours of entertainment."

3 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. On A Voting Machine? by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't that mean we'll need an audit trail to verify a player's score?

  2. wrong title by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Corporate Dollars Reprogram Voters To Elect PACmen"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  3. This is terrible news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We don't need people in government going around chasing ghosts.

    We need to do something about the threat from space invaders.