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Tablet Magazine
The show’s 58 artists, chosen by the Jewish Museum’s Assistant Curator Daniel Belasco, tailor Judaic rituals to their values, identities, and circumstances. (Most, but not all, of them are Jewish.) They work in every conceivable medium: drawing, sculpture, textile, graphic novel, and industrial design, to name a few.
[ continue ]San Francisco Bay Guardian
Joe Grand and his accomplices, Jacob Appelbaum of Noisebridge and Chris Tarnovsky of Flylogic Engineering, have had their way with San Francisco’s new “smart” parking meters, hacking their way into the systems, exposing how easily they are manipulated, and sharing the entire experience with whoever would listen.
[ continue ]CNET News
Most badges from conferences and trade shows end up in the trash. Not so the badges from the DEFCON security show, which are stylized, mysterious, and highly customized electronics equipment designed to be hacked.
[ continue ]Threatpost: Digital Underground Podcast
In this episode, Dennis Fisher talks with Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio about the design for this year’s DEFCON badge, the secret feature he added that no one has uncovered yet and his research on hacking smart parking meters.
[ continue ]Wired.com
For the last four years DEFCON‘s badges have been designed with circuit boards that attendees have been encouraged to hack as part of a contest. This year, the badge hackers were competing to win a black über badge, which gives the recipient free entry to DEFCON for life.
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