Will Scott Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation “Block-Resistant Network Services Using Unblock” Thursday, November 1, 2012 10:00 a.m. Allen Center, CSE 203 Advisors: Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy ABSTRACT– The desire for uncensored access to the Internet has motivated the development of both open proxies like Tor and social graph-based overlays like FreeNet. However, neither design… Continue reading Quals Talk
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Cory Doctorow stopped by the UW this afternoon
Cory Doctorow stopped by the UW to talk about tech policy issues this afternoon. Promoted us to develop new takes on opportunistic encryption to improve privacy, and on the need for privacy as a differentiator for applications. He feels, I think rightly, that there is a distinct lack of code being written solving privacy problems. His take… Continue reading Cory Doctorow stopped by the UW this afternoon
Tor Censorship
It was a relatively easy data processing task to look at per-country disruptions in tor users. The numbers are interesting – and heartening. My previous intuition was that there was even more worldwide disruption of the network. Data Processing Code
The FreeDOM paper I wrote with +Raymond Cheng will be appearing at HotNets, and is available onli…
The FreeDOM paper I wrote with +Raymond Cheng is available online. FreeDOM.pdf HotNets-X: Program This was posted on Google+…
HMC @ CSE
HMC @ CSE Eighteen Seattle-area Harvey Mudd College alums socialized last night with HMC President Maria Klawe in the Jaech Gallery at UW Computer Science & Engineering. Many are UW CSE Ph.D. students – HMC sent us four students just this year! CSE-ers in the photo: (back row) Adrian Sampson, Dan Halperin, Stuart Pernsteiner, Eric… Continue reading HMC @ CSE
Blocking-Resistant Network Services using Unblock
I’ll be giving a talk on Unblock in a week at the Department affiliates day. Slides will be posted soon, including some cool data on recently observed censorship. More information
Hotnets 2012
I’ll be at HotNets 2012 with the FreeDOM paper I worked on this summer. Interesting stuff looking at how to support community services (like open street maps or wikipedia) online. Conference Site
CSE 451
I’m TAing the undergraduate operating systems class at University of Washington this fall. It should be a cool class – the students will get to build all the cool parts of their own operating system. The assignments will get posted on the class homepage.
Brackets
I added some chrome structure around the adobe brackets codebase so that it will load as a chrome extension. Code is living on github (note: pretty ugly at the moment, I removed things that didn’t work off the bat, like references to localStorage) willscott/brackets. It looks like this.
Tweet sized syntax highlighter
An idea I’ve been throwing around since the first JS1k programming competition was to see if it would be possible to build a javascript syntax highlighter of some form that could fit in a single tweet. (In the first event, there was additional credit given to tweetable code.) I’ve been able to make something that… Continue reading Tweet sized syntax highlighter