Ben Adida

@benadida

I lead an incredible team building voting machines everyone can trust. Optimistic about judicious uses of tech. Systems, security, privacy, cryptography, and the web are my jam. Previously: Clever, Square, Mozilla, Harvard, MIT.

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Ben Adida@benadida· 1d

Well hello there Georgia.

Photo of me in front of a welcome to Augusta sign

Ben Adida@benadida· Jun 19

Hey Gemini, mind giving me a little more info about "former"? 🤣

Snapshot from InTheWeights.com about Ben Adida, claiming he is the "former" executive director of VotingWorks.

Ben Adida@benadida· Apr 20

Patriots' Day. North Bridge, Concord Massachusetts.

Patriots Day parade at the North Bridge. View of the Westford MA Minute Men flag.

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 27

What I learned today is everyone should have the experience of watching a live soccer match with a Brazil-leaning crowd. Every ref call contested, excitement about every corner kick, so much emotion. Also, sorry Brazil 😉

Me in front of Foxboro stadium soccer field

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 11

Ballot boxes ready to go home.

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 11

Hanging out at the Bedford high school gym as they wrap up the count.

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 10

VotingWorks everywhere!

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 10

Some towns have a lot of fun with election day.

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 10

And polls are open in Londonderry.

Me (Ben) standing in front of a security line, and behind that, VotingWorks tabulators. In a high school gym.

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 3

I 💜 boring elections
Socks and stickers.

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 3

Don't mess with Londonderry elections. 16,000+ voters, one high school gym, all in one day. 8 people dedicated to parking management.

Londonderry old ballot box with a poster saying " did you know? Londonderry is the second largest polling place in the United States."

Ben Adida@benadida· Mar 3

Testing our latest voting equipment in New Hampshire today. So proud of what we've built at @voting.works. A robust tabulator, built on a secure foundation, and fully open source.

Scanning test ballots in New Hampshire with a VotingWorks tabulator, screen reads "Your ballot was counted!"

Ben Adida@benadida· Feb 12

My team knows me well.

an excerpt of a Slack message that says "cc @ben since you like QR codes"

Ben Adida@benadida· Jan 24

We're ready, polar vortex. Not excited, but ready.

My dog in slippers and a jacket looking somewhat uncertain.

Ben Adida@benadida· Jan 12

Logging into AAA for my physics lesson on the Ideal Gas Law.

An email from AAA with subject "why does the cold cause low tire pressure?"

Ben Adida@benadida· Dec 27

Yo. This place is pretty freaking cool.

Me in front of the main Chichen Itzah pyramid

Ben Adida@benadida· Dec 12

Checking out a Shoup lever machine in Topeka, Kansas. No, these are not in use anymore. Just fun to see in person the type of voting machine that was broadly used in the US in the middle of the 20th century.

Me standing in front of a lever voting machine.

Ben Adida@benadida· Nov 25

Wait. What was that book about again?

An email from Amazon that informs me that they have to revoke my order for the book "1984" and I should delete it from my kindle library.

Ben Adida@benadida· Nov 18

I will never tire of this awesomeness.

Michael J Fox skateboarding in Back to the Future.

Ben Adida@benadida· Oct 22

Ummm.

Headline reading "Louvre security apparatus worked during heist, says French Culture Minister"

Ben Adida@benadida· Sep 16

Look I'm biased, but this NYT summary of Robert Redford in Sneakers feels way off the mark.

Text excerpt from NYT:

"Sneakers, a breezy caper starring Mr. Redford as a security hacker, reflected his occasional willingness to embrace popcorn cinema."

Ben Adida@benadida· Aug 8

Worth noting that GPT5-thinking does well on the Blueberry test.

Screenshot of gpt5 thinking model answering "How many B's in Blueberry" with

"Zero. There no capital B's in blueberry. If you want b's regardless of case, it's 2."

Ben Adida@benadida· Jul 18

The meaning of life for sure.

A Raspberry seltzer and pickup number 42.

Ben Adida@benadida· Jul 11

So Bletchley Park is incredible.

Ben Adida@benadida· Jul 7

Follow the white rabbit...

Selfie of me in a covered market with a white rabbit hanging from the ceiling.

Ben Adida@benadida· Jun 14

Then comes the most interesting part of the system: results reporting. The machines each print a tally report at the end of the night. The report includes a QR code that encodes the results data. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

QR code from an election results tape in Venezuela

Results tape from Venezuela voting machine

Ben Adida@benadida· May 24

Ahem.

New York Times headline "Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing man for weeks"

Xkcd #538, comparing crypto nerd imagination of breaking RSA vs reality of torturing the password holder.

Ben Adida@benadida· May 24

13yo soccer match, other team didn't show, they asked parents to complete teams for scrimmage, then it started to rain. It was awesome.

Me, wet hair from rain and sweat, smiling into camera.

Ben Adida@benadida· May 24

Well, good morning to you, too, The Economist.

Email inbox from the Economist with subject "Why Gen X is the real loser generation"

Ben Adida@benadida· May 22

come on, no!