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I presented CalmNetViz to a bunch of students this afternoon at DawgBytes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I worked on a network visualization tool in processing for my Ubiquitous Computing class. It observes network traffic and attempts to geolocate the servers you communicate with. It isn’t easily installable at the moment, but I hope to rectify that in the near future.