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Please send praise and/or threats to pwhiting@uwaterloo.🇨🇦

I research censorship and other security/info systems whatscensored.peterwhiting.me

I create puzzles to help people recognize Quackery trackthequack.art

┌─Ban-rays (my experiments to detect smart glasses that have cameras) hit #1 on hackernews!
├─Presented IRBlock as a finalist at CSAW '25 Applied Research Competition, hosted at NYU
├─Presented health misinfo research at AoIR '25, hosted at UFF in Brazil
├─Wrote about a satirical CAPTCHA 'Piracy as Proof of Personhood' in Paged Out!" #7
├─Made a factual knowledge comparator on controversial topics between LLMs and Wikipedia
... etc.