Category: Online

DaTong

Wrote up a long-form post about visiting DaTong, China in 2009.

I’m quite excited to be talking at CascadiaFest this summer about the work I’ve been doing on scanning the Internet. My talk proposal is archived here. The cool end-results are still getting ready for publication, but one of the code modules I’m pretty excited about that happened in the process is ip2country.

Seattle Open Data Day

As covered by the CS department blog, and on twitter at #SeaOpenData.

31C3

I gave a talk last week at CCC in Hamburg on the state of consumer technology in Pyongyang. It’s available for streaming online. Images shown in the talk are available.

DPRK Intranet

Technology in the DPRK is in the news cycle
again. I’m excited to talk a bit more in depth on what technology in Pyongyang looks like next week at CCC.

I support the condemnation of online harassment by the Tor project.

I started ip2country over the last few days, as a self contained npm module for determining the country of an IP address.

Webrtc-Adapter

WebRTC continues to develop towards an evolving standard, requiring some additional leg work to use it in projects. In yet another attempt at bridging that gap, I’ve been working on maintaining an adapter lessening some of the deviation from standard in current browsers.

https://www.npmjs.org/package/webrtc-adapter

It currently fixes

Response of format of getStats in Chrome
Translation to ‘url’ from the standard ‘urls’ when configuration is passed to Firefox
Emission of the ‘negotiationneeded’ event when a data channel is created in Firefox

The main hope is that this will be easier to include in projects than previous attempts.

Open Proxies

I spent a bit of time last month looking at Open Proxies. They’re are one of the dark corners of the internet that have been around forever but which we still don’t really understand. It was really cool to get a view into the largely international nature of the servers, get a sense of where… Continue reading Open Proxies

Public & Private

I have ended up spending more time than I was expecting over that last few months struggling to figure out where I stand on how much of ones life should be public versus private. I’ve found myself being more private over the last year, somewhat to my dismay, and yet have felt increasingly uncomfortable being… Continue reading Public & Private