Touchscreen Voting Machine Hacked to Play Pac Man

droopus writes: It turns out paperless touch-screen voting machines are actually good for something after all. Two computer security researchers recently hacked this Sequoia AVC Edge to play the classic arcade video game PacMan. They picked up the machine after it was decommissioned in Virginia in a statewide purge of paperless voting machines.

J. Alex Halderman, of the University of Michigan, and Ariel J. Feldman from Princeton University simply swapped out the PCMCIA card in the machine where the voting software is stored and replaced it with one loaded with PacMan. They pulled this off without disturbing the tamper-evident seals on the machine; they simply unscrewed the compartment where the card is housed, and slipped in their home-brewed version.

Of course, ES&S and Dominion still insist the machines are "totally foolproof."