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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Finding the level of privacy we are okay with as a society is one of the blurriest lines I’ve fou…

Finding the level of privacy we are okay with as a society is one of the blurriest lines I've found.  It seems clear that there is no single answer, but as technology shifts the balance we're certainly getting less comfortable with our ability to control our privacy. Being Social Is About Being Private Social networks and… Continue reading Finding the level of privacy we are okay with as a society is one of the blurriest lines I’ve fou…

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