Will Scott

Tag: tech

  • Cascadia Fest

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

  • 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.

  • CascadiaFest

    cascadiafest

    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.

  • 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.

  • LinuxFest NW

    LinuxFest NW

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    I’ll be talking about what a civic hacking organization looks like at Linux Fest NorthWest in April.

    Code for Seattle is a brigade of civic-minded hackers. We’ll talk about how we’ve organized hackathons, a weekly meetup, and successfully navigated the government bureaucracy as a small group of volunteers.

  • Server

    Server

    server

    Finally got a new server up and running. It’s interesting to go through the setup process every once in a while to see what parts of it are still hardware. I also got to explore some new corners of the process, like dealing with the remote admin interface, and structuring DNS and NICs across multiple public interfaces.

  • Open Tech Fund

    I’m excited to be supported by the Open Technology Fund on my research of activist.js. I’ve found myself in highly esteemed company, and hope to live up to goals of program.

    Will Scott, a graduate student in the Networking Lab at the University of Washington, will continue his work on Activist.js, a tool that helps publishers resist censorship by maintaining strong websites that are more resilient to network interference.

    Read the OTF announcement.

  • Seattle Open Data Day

    Seattle Open Data Day

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

  • Cryptographic Currencies from a Tech-Policy Perspective

    The proceedings for BITCOIN’15 are now available, including our paper on some of the legal issues surrounding crypto-currencies.

  • Zurich

    Zurich

    I had a great start of the year visiting Switzerland. I got to meet a bunch of people at ETH, and hear about some of the cool projects that they’re working on – like Barrelfish, a new operating system that can better scale to machines with many CPUs.

    Switzerland as a country is very nice as well! Good chocolate, impressive scenery, and very efficient transportation.