Even more disturbing: By infecting one of the memory cards used to program the machines, a hacker could infect the server used for counting the electronic ballots.
As Douglas Rushkoff writes in his brilliant manifesto, Program or Be Programmed, the hacker ethos that led to all of this digital technology is no longer present for most users.
The iPhone Dev Team has accused him of stealing their code to create the program, and many in the hacker community instead credit Erica Sadun, a blogger for the Unofficial Apple Weblog.