How to hack a Diebold voting machine

Researchers from Princeton demonstrate how one could hack a Diebold machine and alter the election results, with an undetectable software that can also spread like a virus:

Read the full report of their research: Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine.

[Via Lessig blog]

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