Repurposing voting machines as pac-man games

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What can you do with direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine, that has been proven to be insecure? That’s the question a group of security researches from Princeton and the University of Michigan were faced with after proving time and again that the machines were trivial to tamper with. Concerned with the possibility that the machines might end up in a landfill, they worked out a solution: convert them into Pac-man arcade machines. Excellent work!

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