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"The researchers developed a program that switches votes from one candidate to another. The program, which took two days to write and is only 122 lines of code, was specifically designed to obscure the aberrant behavior when it detects that voting machine officials are running diagnostic software to test the machine. The way that the hacked firmware manipulates the vote tallying mechanism also ensures that the internal electronic audit trails generated by the machine will be consistent with the doctored vote counts. This means that the hack is virtually undetectable. The researchers burned the hacked firmware on a ROM chip which they were then able to install in the voting machine.
     They were able to gain physical access by using little more than a screwdriver. The machines are protected by locks and supposedly tamper-proof straps, but the researchers found that these were easy to bypass without detection. Lead researcher Andrew Appel was able to pick the lock in only 13 seconds using a cheap set of $40 lock-picking tools. He had no previous experience with lock-picking apart from a bit of basic training from a grad student who was familiar with the art.
     The researchers also found that the seal was so flexible that they could remove the circuit-board cover without having to break it. Further, they cite a study conducted by Dr. Roger Johnston of the Los Alamos National Laboratory which reveals that the vast majority of plastic anti-tamper seals can be trivially circumvented with cheap low-tech materials."—Ryan Paul, ars technica
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