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Voting Machine Serves a Higher Purpose: Pac-Man

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So if you’ve ever wondered what happens to old electronic voting machines after they’re retired?

Since the Sequoia AVC EDGE voting machines were known for their insecurities and easy to tamper with, security researchers J. Alex Halderman and Ariel J. Feldman at the University of Michigan decided to turn the…

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August 19th, 2010 by: Technabob

Paper Beats Computer: Scientists Hack Voting Machine

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The man in the picture below is UC San Diego Computer Science Ph.D. student Stephen Checkoway. In his hands is a printout that proves that his team’s “return-oriented programming” exploit was successfully able to steal votes from a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine. Checkoway was probably like, “Yay! Our…

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August 12th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

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