Brandon Wiley (@blanu) is a peer-to-peer pioneer who creates tools to circumvent Internet censorship. In 1999 he co-founded the Freenet project to create a censorship-resistant publishing platform. He is also known for the Curious Yellow superworm design. When working for BitTorrent, Inc. he was given the difficult task of trying to reason with the Internet service providers that were engaging in BitTorrent throttling. More recently he has been working for the Tor project on their next generation blocking-resistant protocols such as pyobfsproxy and obfs3. He is currently in the final stages of his PhD, where he is studying all of the most popular Deep Packet Inspection hardware and figuring out how to defeat it. His interests include Bayesian statistics, polymorphic encodings, and chiptune music.
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