Asides

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

I finally got around to writing up the story of visiting Mongolia.

I support the condemnation of online harassment by the Tor project.

I started ip2country over the last few days, as a self contained npm module for determining the country of an IP address.

I spent friday at the new england networks and systems day in Boston. It was surprisingly doable to get up to Boston, something I hadn’t really processed living on the west coast. It was also great to see a bunch of people in the community that I don’t get to see very often.

I took the next step on recommended security practices by upgrading to https-only, and enabling spdy on the server. Still don’t have optimal cipher strengths, which will require some additional algorithm preference tweaking.