Rick Perry

• Cyber Security Links

• 2007 Trivia, Valentine Plot

• Notes on Linux and Dev-C++ - including wireless @ VU

• ECE Department Yearbook Photo 10/2006, 10/2007

• Research Projects (old)
  • Classmate Collage
  • Bayes Spam Classification
  • Email Anti-Virus and Queueing
  • Communications and Tracking

• Events (old)
  • Conference on Email and Anti-Spam
  • FIE Conference - 20-23 Oct. 2004
  • Spam Conference - 16 Jan. 2004
  • ACM Meeting - 19 Nov. 2003 - presentation

• Links
  • References for ANSI C
  • The Linux Home Page at Linux Online
  • Ubuntu - excellent Linux distribution, based on Debian
  • FreeBSD
  • Mac OS X - Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows.
  • Cygwin - ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for MS/Win/95,98,NT.
  • Free MS/Win C/C++ Development Environments: Dev-C++ (highly recommended); Watcom.

• Fun
  • Florida Voting
  • Hurricane Charlie Preparations in Drexel Hill (14 Aug 2004)
  • CIRT Advisory CA-2003-0401: /dev/null Vulnerability
  • serious vulnerability present. all doomed. over.
  • The Harmonic Series
  • "It's now unsafe to turn on your computer"

• News (old)
  • Microsoft Monopoly Represents National Security Risk, Say Internet Security Experts - Press, Report
  • Microsoft Terminal Services vulnerable to MITM-attacks
  • OpenSSL Remote Timing Attack
  • Browser Security Test
  • CISS Conference
  • Villanova Email Server Reliability
  • Apache/mod_ssl Worm
  • Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud - sample messages #1, #2, #3
  • Who framed Internet Explorer

• Quote from Bill Joy

  Adding security to an existing, large insecure system will, in my judgment, prove an impossible task.

• My home office   -   static view,   live webcam
  night view from the international space station  ( enlarged)

• Contact Information
  Dr. Richard Perry, Email: perry@misty.com, Web: http://fog.misty.com/perry/   [PGP]
  Resume: html, postscript, pdf.

• Previous Life
  I was the Unix system administrator for the Villanova University ECE Department from about 1985 until May 2002. Errol McIntosh is the sysadmin there now; he can be reached at support@villanova.edu, or call the Help Desk (610-519-7777). I still maintain the University majordomo mailing list server at news.villanova.edu