HEY! I'm Peter's Website
Please send praise and/or threats to pwhiting@uwaterloo.🇨🇦
I research censorship and other security/info systems
whatscensored.peterwhiting.me
I write articles like "
Hacking the Dutch Government for a t-shirt
"
nullpxl.com
I create puzzles to help people recognize Quackery
trackthequack.art
recent
tree
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Ban-rays
(my experiments to detect smart glasses that have cameras) hit #1 on
hackernews
!
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Presented
IRBlock
as a
finalist
at CSAW '25 Applied Research Competition, hosted at NYU
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Presented
health misinfo research
at AoIR '25, hosted at UFF in Brazil
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Wrote about a satirical CAPTCHA '
Piracy as Proof of Personhood
' in
Paged Out!" #7
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Made a
factual knowledge comparator
on controversial topics between LLMs and Wikipedia
... etc.
random
DC Motor Propeller Hat
Ban-Rays: glasses to detect Meta Raybans (and hidden camera glasses)
Foosball Academy
Foosball table on Wheels, movable via bluetooth
90's themed foosball+pong website
Piracy as Proof of Personhood ("Alignment CAPTCHAs")
security
internet censorship
topic modeling websites from blocky.greatfire.org over 11 years
(small contributions) Measurement Study of the Great Firewall of Iran
writing
blog posts on CTF, privacy, and weird security things
Paged Out! article about media literacy education
tools
Discord bot for CTF management, 100+ stars and in hundreds of servers (no longer maintaining)
CLI to find hosts related to a domain by searching for instances of repeated code/html and tracking ids across publicly available data
Prometheus/Grafana for LibAFL (part of my internship at Yubico)
media systems
News and Reddit discourse on international students in Canada
rubber-duck scavenger hunt across Canada to teach media literacy skills
comparing facts on wikipedia about controversial topics with other sources (like LLMs)