In the apparatus for a vote "stitched" game Pac-Man

In the apparatus for a vote "stitched" game Pac-Man

Researchers at security issues from the University of Michigan made the electronic voting machine in the arcade to play Pac-Man, wrote tehnoblog Technabob.
Object for the experiment was a device called Sequoia AVC EDGE. Having access to it, scientists have reformatted the internal memory. Then they set the DOS and arcade machine emulator MAME. According to the researchers, they were also able to install the device operating system based on the kernel Linux.

Sequoia AVC Edge is a multilingual terminal with touch screen. Voices of the voters, he writes to a built-in flash memory. User identification by using a smart card, and further work with the device, including the vote - a touch interface. After the vote, throws on a removable data card PCMCIA, which is transported to the election commission. The machine is equipped with an Intel 486 SLE, 32 megabytes of memory and running the system pSOS +.

Conceived by researchers managed to implement due to several vulnerabilities in the Sequoia AVC Edge. Reprogramming does not require opening the seals on the device. The whole process took three days.