Will Scott

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  • Cycling Ladakh

    Cycling Ladakh

    I spent the last couple weeks bicycling through northern India. It was a great trip with spectacular scenery, good food, and a fascinating culture.

    With Ravi, a friend from the networks lab at UW, I arrived in Leh, a city at 11,500 feet in the far north of India. We chose the Himalayas to avoid the stifling heat that otherwise covers the region in the summer. After altitude adjustment, we took a 4 day bike ride over the 240km road to Kargil. The area was really cool – new, very ragged mountains and high plains. The shift in culture that we experienced on the ride, from a Buddhist dominant culture in Leh to a more Islamic influenced Kashmir / Central Asian culture in Kargil.


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  • What’s Up with Open HTTP Proxies

    I’ll be giving a talk next week at CCCamp on the Open Proxy ecosystem, following up on some work I did last year looking at the operators, users, and traffic.

  • Cascadia Fest

    The video of my talk last month on scanning the Internet using Node.js has been published by Cascadia Fest.

  • DaTong

    DaTong

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

  • discotech

    It’s shaping up to be a busy summer. Lessig’s film opens tomorrow, along with the monthly Code for Seattle @ Socrata meetup. This Saturday is Discover Technology, a showcase of civic tech in Seattle.

  • Turkey

    Turkey

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    Turkey today blocked access to Gezi Park. I’ve just returned from a trip to Turkey and Cyprus where I stayed near the park for a week, and had the opportunity to see the vibrant discussion and civic engagement occurring in the run-up to the election next week. It was an amazing adventure – each place I visit helps open my eyes to what a diverse world we live in.

  • College Reunion

    College Reunion

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    I spent last weekend at my 5 year college reunion. It was fantastic to see everyone again – and reminds me how incredibly lucky I was to find the community I did at college.
    Also: What Drought?

  • CascadiaFest

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    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.

  • Southeast Asia

    Southeast Asia

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    I’ve spent the last couple of weeks visiting Southeast Asia. It was my first trip south of the equator, and my first visit to several new countries. I was particularly impressed by Indonesia, which is an incredible place.

  • HPKP

    I’ve updated this domain to include the new HPKP mechanism and a stronger intermediate cert. HPKP supplements the previous HSTS mechanism to define a specific signing key that must be present on subsequent HTTPS interactions with the server, helping to mitigate one class of man in the middle attacks.