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Join us on Thursday, May 7th at Nominal for a Rust NYC meetup featuring two talks about engineering at Internet scale. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. so attendees have time to grab pizza & socialize, & talks begin at 7:15 p.m.
Our first talk, Reverse Engineering China's Great Firewall, will be given by Jackson Sippe, a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder whose research focuses on privacy, network security, & censorship circumvention. Jackson is best known for his work on China's Great Firewall, including the discovery of a memory disclosure vulnerability dubbed Wallbleed & the reverse engineering of several censorship techniques used by the firewall.
China's Great Firewall is one of the largest & most sophisticated censorship systems ever deployed, but what does it actually do on the wire? Jackson will walk through several years of measurement & reverse engineering work on the GFW, including discoveries about how it blocks fully encrypted traffic, how it adapted to disrupt QUIC, & how vulnerabilities in its infrastructure exposed surprising weaknesses. More broadly, this is a talk about the engineering tradeoffs behind censorship at Internet scale: what it takes to inspect & interfere with live traffic, where those systems are effective, & where their complexity creates consequences for users far beyond China.
Our second talk, Geospatial Rust: How to Go Places & Get There Fast Without Crashing, will be given by Yuri Astrakhan, Principal Engineer at Rivian. Yuri will give a practical introduction to mapping & explain how Rust & related technologies are changing the geospatial ecosystem.
The talk will cover open source tools & libraries related to mapping, where Rust is being adopted, how different projects compete & cooperate, & the story of MapLibre-including where Rust fits into its future. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of the modern geospatial stack, why performance & reliability matter so much in mapping, & where Rust is starting to make a real impact.
Together, these talks explore two very different but deeply technical domains: censorship infrastructure & geospatial systems. Both involve complex networks, performance-sensitive software, open protocols, & hard reliability constraints. Whether you are interested in Rust, networking, security, mapping, reverse engineering, or large-scale systems design, this meetup should offer a rare & practical look at how real-world infrastructure behaves under pressure.
Speakers:
Jackson Sippe is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he conducts empirical research on privacy, network security, & censorship circumvention. He is best known for his work on China's Great Firewall, including the discovery of the Wallbleed memory disclosure vulnerability & the reverse engineering of several censorship techniques used by the firewall. More at sipperior.com.
Yuri Astrakhan is a Principal Engineer at Rivian & a long-time contributor to open source mapping technology. His work spans geospatial systems, open map infrastructure, & the evolution of MapLibre & related tools.
Lawrence Harvey is Rust NYC's official recruitment partner, with Ross providing support as a co-organizer & financial support.
The space is generously sponsored by Nominal.
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