Tag Archives: hacking

Amanda Sari Perez on winning this month’s A2Awesome grant, and the geodesic dome she’s built with the money

By Mark | June 4, 2012

Today, the trustees of A2Awesome handed over $1,000 to Amanda Sari Perez for the creation of an enormous geodesic dome, which she hopes will serve as a platform on which others in the community can express their creativity. Following is my interview with her. MARK: To start out, could you tell us a bit about [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Awesome Foundation | Also tagged A2Awesome, A2MechShop, Alice Liberson, All Hands Active, Amanda Sari Perez, brain implants, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, creativity, Dick Soble, DIY, Dome Sweet Dome, Figment, geodesic dome, grants, Heather MacKenzie, inh Song, interview, Lakes of Fire, Lisa Dengiz, Maker Faire, Maker Works, making stuff, micro-philanthropy, Paul Saginaw, public art, Syncytium | 5 Comments

Ypsilanti City government takes a stand on my penis

By Mark | January 28, 2012

A few days ago, at lunch, I received a strange call. Ypsi’s new City Manager had somehow gotten his hands on my cell phone number. He was calling to apologize. I can’t remember his exact words, but he said something like, “Uhhhh… The City just launched a new website, and, somehow, it was hacked. You [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AnnArbor.com, City Manager, John Hansen, Karen Maurer, Mark's penis, Mitt Romney, Neutral Zone, penis discoloration, penises, Queer Zone, sabotage, trough urinals, urinal, Wurst Bar | 20 Comments

U-M helps expose vulnerability in electronic voting system

By Mark | October 27, 2010

Earlier this month, I told you about a University of Michigan team headed by Professor J. Alex Halderman that successfully hacked their way into a new electronic voting system launched by the D.C. Board of Elections. By altering vote counts, and having the electronic voting machines in D.C. play the Michigan fight song every time [...]

Posted in Other, Ypsilanti | Also tagged China, Chinese hackers, election rigging, elections, electronic voting, Fair Elections Now Act, Fix Congress First, Hail to the Victors, Iran, Iranian hackers, J. Alex Halderman, Public Accuracy Test, University of Michigan, Verified Voting, vote tampering | 7 Comments

Hail to the hackers who protect our democracy

By Mark | October 5, 2010

Congratulations this evening are due to the folks at University of Michigan’s computer science department. Encouraged by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics last week to identify vulnerabilities in a new electronic voting platform, a U-M team, headed by Professor J. Alex Halderman, was not only able to penetrate the system, but to have [...]