Proxxy had its best installation day ever yesterday. I have no clue why. Usage is at about 2500 users, up from 1500 this summer.
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Chrome Proxy
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Quals Talk
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 is sufficient, since open access networks are easily exposed and blocked, and overlays based just on social trust suffer from poor availability and performance. This talk presents the design for a new overlay service, Unblock, constructed from an augmented social graph. In Unblock, multi-hop paths through social links protect individual participants from exposure to adversaries. Unblock achieves good performance by introducing additional links in the network graph in a manner that minimizes vulnerability. We also develop several transport level techniques for improved latency and demonstrate the practicality of the system for web traffic workloads.
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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 is that people have given up trying, but that there are still easy ways to change norms. He pushed on changing browsers to not accept 3rd party cookies by default as a way to change norms. (I have a chrome patch sitting around somewhere that goes further, but never figured out how to surface an appropriate UI.) -
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.
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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.
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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 Mullen, (middle row) Lilian de Greef, (front row) Will Scott, (missing in action) Megan Campbell.
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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.
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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.
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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.
