7:00 – 4:00 VTX

• Finished Publius: A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant web publishing system
• Starting Anonymity Loves Company – Anonymous Web Transactions with Crowds by Mike Reiter and Aviel Ruben, who was one of the co-authors on the Publius paper.
  • Crowds could probably be built with PeerJS. The ISP would still know traffic, but that’s it.
• Found this nice article in Communications of the ACM: Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web. Nice overview. Very current.
• The Big List of Naughty Strings
• Time to combine everything
  • Optional generation of Providers and queries – default is to load them from the DB
  • Run queries from the DB
    • Show the number available and allow a request – done
    • Iterating over the queries and pages. Need to create, append and persist a rating Done
    • Named queries for
      • Queries that have the lowest number of results.ratings – done-ish. Currently it looks for -1 as a flag. Should also look for queries that have unrated results.
      • Queries associated with ‘bad’ providers
      • Queries associated with ‘good’ providers
    • Connect to DB remotely
  • Wrap the app (done, with Launch4j. Very nice!) and test it on the other laptop. Note, it doesn’t have enough disk to install java on. That will have to wait.
  • Packing up the laptop. Debating bringing multi monitor support. I’ll have the other laptop…
  • Gratuitous screenshot: