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Published Work

Within the sections, I'll try to keep these sorted by date where I can. The computer article section is probably far from complete; in particular, none of my work for Web Hosting Magazine is listed. There may be other omissions as well. If you know of additional articles, please let me know and I'll add them here.

Books

• Think Unix

Short Fiction

• Missed Approach. Spartan. April 2013.
• The Affair. matchbook. March 2013.
• Every Girl on the Bus I've Ever Looked at the Wrong Way, I'm Sorry. Ampersand Review. Volume 6.
• Cigarette. decomP magazine. August 2009.
• "Lodestar", The Ne'er-Do-Well Magzine. Issue 1.
• I still get pictures from him sometimes. The Ne'er-Do-Well Magazine (Online)

Book Reviews

• Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• The Visionary State by Erik Davis, with photographs by Michael Rauner
• Fragile Things, by Neil Gaiman
• Wayfarer's Dawn, by Nate Llerandi
• Fortunate Son, by Walter Mosley
• Black Hole, by Charles Burns
• The Game, by Neil Strauss
• Europe Central, by William T Vollmann
• Eating the Flowers of Paradise, by Kevin Rushby
• What the Dormouse Said, by John Markoff
• Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
• The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage
• On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt
• The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler
• Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, by Lester Bangs
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
• Led Zeppelin IV, by Erik Davis
• DisneyWar, by James B. Stewart
• The Ancestor's Tale, by Richard Dawkins
• Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
• Eyeing the Flash, by Peter Fenton
• He's Just Not That Into You, by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
• The Opposite of Fate, by Amy Tan
• The Darling, by Russell Banks
• The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Volume 3), by Neal Stephenson
• The River at the Center of the World, by Simon Winchester
• Things Worth Fighting For, by Michael Kelly
• Eastern Standard Tribe, by Cory Doctorow
• The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Volume 2), by Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Volume 1), by Neal Stephenson
• Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
• Falling Out of Cars, by Jeff Noon
• Over the Edge of the World, by Laurence Bergreen
• Sandman: Endless Nights, by Neil Gaiman
• A Forest of Stars, by Kevin J. Anderson
• Open Source E-mail Security, by Richard Blum
• Maximum Linux Security, by Anonymous (with revisions by John Ray)
• Linux Routers: A Primer For Network Administrators, by Tony Mancill
• The Hacker Ethic, by Pekka Himanen
• The Practice of System and Network Administration, by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christine Hogan

Computer-Related Articles

SecurityFocus Opinion Columns

• Security's Failed Past and Risky Future
• Getting Realistic in the War on Hackers
• Too Cool For Secure Code
• Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows
• New Linux Support Policies are Ominous
• The Turkey that Bites
• Rooting Out Corrupted Code
• Caught in a BIND
• Responsible Disclosure by Corporate Fiat
• Mozilla's 'Code of Silence' Isn't
• Slapped Silly
• Lobbying for Insecurity
• Time for Open-Source to Grow Up
• The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
• Irresponsible Disclosure
• United We Fall
• Memo to Microsoft: Stay Secretive, Please
• Teaching the Rules of the Road
• Death to Old Software
• A Certified Waste of Time
• The Science of Happy Accidents
• Passive Aggressive
• A Security Wish List for 2002
• Detecting the Software Switcheroo
• Black Hats Prefer Linux
• Keep Security Censorship Away From Linux
• From Text to Trauma
• The crypto genie is out of the bottle
• Return to sender?
• Code Red: it can happen here
• You may already be hacked.
• The Raw Packet Panic

Freelance Articles

• Intrusion Detection: Implementing Snort in a Production Environment (PDF) ;login:
• Making SSH do more. LinuxWorld Magazine.
• Linux security basics LinuxWorld Magazine.
• Supporting Security for Unix Systems. informit.com.
• The Dirty Work: Maintaining Basic Linux Systems Security. informit.com.
• Falling Apart at the Seams (with Kathleen Ellis) SecurityFocus.com

Technical Papers

• Development of Exploits for CVE-2000-0666 (PDF)