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
- Sometimes when I'm alone I Google myself...
- My del.icio.us links [rss]
- My Amazon wish-list
- Links and references to my security document, "The Hardening of Microsoft Windows NT"
- Quoted in CIO Magazine for the article, "Getting Clueful: Five Things You Should Know About Fighting Spam"
Discovered vulnerabilities
- Bugtraq ID: 6798, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition Configuration File Modification Vulnerability
- Bugtraq ID: 19545, Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability
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:
- "Microsoft TechNet: ITSEC FC2-E3 Installation of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0"
- "This configuration document the authors has taken recommendations from the following industrial recognized publications into the account"
- "Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems: Connection Governance and Technology", Volume 4
- "The book contains a collection of papers from the Fourth International Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Brussels, Belgium in November 2001. It will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in computer science, information technology, business informatics, accountancy and IT-auditing."
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!
Interesting characteristics
- I can wiggle my ears.
- I can move the the top part of my head/hair without touching it.
- I can roll, as well as turn my tongue over.
- I am slightly pigeon-toed.
- Sudden bright light can make me sneeze.
- I hate needles
- I am blood type O+. I can give blood to almost anyone.
- I give blood 3-4 times a year. You should too!
- I collect DVDs like some people collect trading cards.
- I like to pretend I'm a photographer.
