Sarah Laplante

Software engineer and researcher with a focus on understanding and defending against network censorship

Berlin

sar.laplante@gmail.com

Github

LinkedIn

Signal

Work

Censoredplanet logo

Censored Planet

Quickly analyze national network censorship patterns

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Project Shield logo

Project Shield

DDoS protection for news, human rights, and election websites

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Outline logo

Outline VPN

Censorship-resistant VPN using shadowsocks

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Internet Shutdown

The Current

Feature on government imposed internet shutdowns

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Transparency report screenshot

Google Transparency Report

Detect internet shutdowns through Google traffic data

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Dangling Fishhook

Phishing Quiz

Test how well you can detect online phishing

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Can of Spam

Google Maps Spam

Fighting spam and abuse on Google Maps

Research

Academic

Education

  • Northeastern University logo

  • Northeastern University

    B.S. in Computer Science
    Minors in Linguistics and Math

Publications

Talks

Projects

Chocokanji font pen plotter sample

ChocoKanji

Japanese Hershey SVG font for use with pen plotters

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Deutsche Bahn logo

Deutsche Bahn Clock

Webtoy of a master timed clock

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Truth for humanity screenshot

Truth for Humanity

Find the hidden truth about any topic
First place project at Comedy Hackday

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Frankenpokemon sprite

FrankenPokemon

Horrifying hybrid pokemon from the original sprites

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The Tower of Babel - Peter Bruegel

Gibberish

Make up statistically probable words for a language

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