User:ME2

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What The World's Shortest Personality Test says about ME2

You are dependable, popular, and observant.
Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.
In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.

You are unique, creative, and expressive.
You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.
And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!

  • Meh - Close enough...

ME2, online

Discovered vulnerabilities

Wiki articles I have written or contributed to

Besides the articles on this site of course...

Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Wiki

Avoiding spam, Avoiding Spyware, BombRe and ScriptRe, Dealing with attachments, DNSBL/RBL, Empty or non-existent Regular Expressions and files, FAQ, Filtering spam with Outlook, Glossary, Headers and Body, Important RFCs, Perl Modules, Processing Order, Quick Start for Win32, Service Provider IP Blocks, SMTP Status Codes, Testing your spam filter configuration, Welcome

Wikipedia

Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - Controversy, Sciatica - Self-infliction

ME2, in publication

The Windows NT security manual that I wrote in 1998 called, "The Hardening of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0" has been referenced in:

Interesting history

Some things go back a ways to... when I was a teenager. Before I had status. Before I had a pager...

  • I've been in Marie Antoinette's grotto. It was danker than I expected.
  • I had a praying mantis land on my shoulder in the middle of Harvard Sq. It perched there for about a half hour before flying away.
  • I've been shot at three times in my life: Once with a handgun on I-495 in Lawrence, once with a rifle in my own neighborhood in North Cambridge, and a third time with a BB-gun in Duxbury.
  • I've actually been shot twice. Once with the rifle (grazed really), the second with the BB-gun (10 pumps hurts like you wouldn't believe). The multiple shots fired at my father and I on I495 (I was the closer target) missed my head by about an inch.
  • I've done a tabletop on a BMX bike as well as a moto-cross bike.
  • I've out-run the police on a moto-cross bike (hi Arlington police!), a sport bike (hi former MDC police!) as well as a Camaro (hi Randolph police!). The sport bike (GSX-R) was about speed and maneuverability through Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, and finally loosing the cop in Watertown. Make no mistake - the MDC police used to be the worst cops around, with power equivalent to Staties, and typically with a chip on their shoulder (ask a local). Since the Camaro ('80 Z-28) was 3 gears of low-end power without any decent top-end speed, that chase was more about guile and playing cat-n-mouse. The first instance on the moto-cross bike was admittedly my fault - I was riding in the woods too close to a residential area. The other two instances I was chased for *no reason*. In my opinion, it was criminal profiling both times - but I didn't stick around to ask.
  • I've had the pleasure of being waved into high-end clubs without having to wait in line - based on appearance and entourage. Yep, it feels as cool as it looks.
  • I went to school with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
  • I've been solicited for both drugs and sex on the streets of Boston. I declined.
  • I've been to a studio taping of ZOOM.
  • I'm pretty sure I know the cause of the 1990 AT&T East Coast phone service outage. Although it likely involved a programming error for a 5ESS switch, the root cause was probably because the switching equipment was asked to do something that it would never do under normal calling circumstance - and certainly not at the quantity that was presented to it. Comparatively speaking, this could be considered similar to many modern day technology vulnerabilities that don't have appropriate condition checks because engineers and developers did not consider intentional misuse. The resulting crash was not intentional - it was just some kids having some inter-state telecommunications fun.

Places I have visited and hope to again

2008/04 - Las Vegas, Nevada USA 
Vacation - Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon (South Rim).
2007/04 - Paris, France 
Vacation - Vive le Vimy! Vive le Canada!
2006/09 - Prague (Praha), Czech Republic 
Vacation - No tanks allowed!
2006/xx - Chicago, Illinois USA 
Wedding / vacation - in the city where buildings are shaped like giant chairs!
2006/xx - Redmond, Washington USA 
Interview visit at Microsoft headquarters.
2002/xx - Vancouver, British Columbia Canada 
Business trip - Pivotal CRM training.
1999/xx - Paris, France 
Business trip - Y2K preparation for Eastman Software (Paris office).
xxxx/xx - Honolulu, Hawaii USA 
Vacation!

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