Winstein was involved in several computer science projects.
Tyrannosaurus Lex is a system Winstein designed to hide messages in documents by altering specific words, published in 1999 while Winstein was in high school at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.[5] The system was the original work in the field of "linguistic steganography."[6] However, analysis of Winstein's scheme by other researchers found that Tyrannosaurus Lex contains several vulnerabilities, allowing an eavesdropper to potentially decode hidden messages embedded using the system.[7][8][9]
Mosh, the mobile shell, first released in March 2012, is a computing tool used to connect from a client computer to a server over the Internet, to run a remote terminal.[10] Mosh is similar[11] to SSH, with additional features meant to improve usability for mobile users.
qrpff is one of the shortest programs that implements the DeCSS algorithm, co-authored by Winstein and Marc Horowitz, while at MIT.[12]
LAMP was a project at MIT that allowed users to play CDs from a music library over the cable TV system.[13]
Winstein, along with Joshua Mandel, built a device for Richard Stallman that allowed him to get past the MIT proximity-card-locked doors, while allowing him to remain anonymous. The device would identify itself as Winstein, Gerald Jay Sussman, or Hal Abelson, in order to open the door.[14]
Journalism
Winstein was a news reporter for The Wall Street Journal's Boston bureau from 2005[15] to its closure in 2009,[16] focusing on the biomedical beat.[5] Prior to his stint at the Journal, he was a reporter and news editor for MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, and interned at The New York Sun.
As a reporter, Winstein wrote several articles critical of medical studies.[17][18][19]
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