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Hovav Shacham Describes how Team Hacked an Electronic Voting Machine with New Programming Technique

Caption: Computer scientists led by Hovav Shacham, a UC San Diego professor, hacked an electronic voting machine and stole votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The computer scientists employed "return-oriented programming" to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes.

Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

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