Sarah Laplante

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

Berlin

sar.laplante@gmail.com

Work

Censoredplanet logo

Censored Planet

Quickly analyze national network censorship patterns

Project Shield logo

Project Shield

DDoS protection for news, human rights, and election websites

Outline logo

Outline VPN

Censorship-resistant VPN using shadowsocks

Internet Shutdown

The Current

Feature on government imposed internet shutdowns

Transparency report screenshot

Google Transparency Report

Detect internet shutdowns through Google traffic data

Dangling Fishhook

Phishing Quiz

Test how well you can detect online phishing

Can of Spam

Google Maps Spam

Fighting spam and abuse on Google Maps

Academic

Education

  • Northeastern University logo
  • Northeastern University

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

Projects

Chocokanji font pen plotter sample

ChocoKanji

Japanese Hershey SVG font for use with pen plotters

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Deutsche Bahn Clock

Webtoy of a master timed clock

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

Horrifying hybrid pokemon from the original sprites

The Tower of Babel - Peter Bruegel

Gibberish

Make up statistically probable words for a language