- Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO -- Creating Secure Software
- What laws should be created to improve computer security?
- Learning from Disaster
- Subversion of bootstrap-sass
- Shellshock
- How to Prevent the next Heartbleed
- POODLE attack against SSLv3
- The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned
- Cloud Security: Virtualization, Containers, and Related Issues
- Sony Pictures, Lax Security, and Passwords
- A Sample Security Assurance Case Pattern by David A. Wheeler, December 2018 (external)
- Securely Using Software Assurance (SwA) Tools in the Software Development Environment by David A. Wheeler and Daniel J. Reddy, IDA Paper P-9166, July 2018 (external)
- What is open security? [PDF] [DOC]
- flawfinder, a source code scanner
- Securing Microsoft Windows (for Home & Small Business Users)
- Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it correctly
- Presentation: Securing Open Source Software [Editable Slides]*
- Presentation: Open Source Software and Software Assurance (Security) [Editable Slides]*
- SCM Security
- Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers)
- Regular expression (regex) demo
- Easier Email Security is on the Way?
- "Techniques for Cyber Attack Attribution" by David A. Wheeler (Oct 2003) (discusses attacker traceback / source tracking on a TCP/IP-based Internet) (external)
- Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers! (Paper)
- Why FLOSS? Look at the Numbers! (Presentation)
- FLOSS is commercial software
- How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs
- Generally Recognized as Mature (GRAM) OSS/FS Programs
- Make Your Open Source
Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else
- Open Source Software (OSS or FLOSS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
- Government Open Source Released Software (external page)
- Releasing Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) for Source Installation
- FLOSS License Slide
- High Assurance (for Security or Safety) and Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)... with Lots on Formal Methods (aka high confidence or high integrity)
- OSS/FS References
- What Should Governments Examine in Acquiring COTS Open Source Software (OSS)? (presentation)
- Presentation: Open Source Software and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) [ODP] [PPT]
- Presentation: Open Source Software (for U.S. Acquisitions) (2007-03) [ODF]* [OGG] [MP3] [FLAC]
- OSS and the DoD (2008 webinar) / Questions and Answers, OSS and DoD
- Open Source Software (OSS) in U.S. Government Acquisitions (this is a gentle introduction to FLOSS)
- “Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government”, Journal of Software Technology, Feb 2011, Vol. 14, Number 1
- A Garden of Chess Openings
- Fischer Random Chess (Chess960)
- FEN2Wikipedia
- Famous chess games: The Game of the Century (PGN/Text), The Immortal Game (PGN/Text), The Evergreen Game (PGN/Text), Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 (PGN/Text)
- Lovelace, Ada95 tutorial
- Steelman papers
- The Definitive Four Fours Answer Key
- Way Off Base, discussing weird bases
- When Adding and Multiplying are the Same
- Accuse, text adventure puzzle-game
- Adventure/Colossal Cave
- Anchorhead (Lovecraftian horror)
- Bronze (by Emily Short) transcript
- Scepter of Goth (history)
- The Origin of All Men are Mortal
- Project Hail Mary Stellar Map
- Project Hail Mary and StarForce: Alpha Centauri
- The Allsome Quantifier
- Say Good Morning if it is Morning Where You Are
- Intellectual Rights, not Intellectual Property
- Ask Not Who Holds the Copyright
- Playstation 4 (PS4) Stuck on Game Main Menu (cannot play any game) - How to Fix
- Politician's Syllogism
- Checklists are for Experts
- Apache Hadoop and Spark (presentation)
- Improving make
- Man as the World-Builder
- Why are Humans used as Batteries in the Matrix?
- How to Throw a Matrix Party
- Crystal City Name Changes
- Move Spaceship Earth!
- Reviews of Books, Movies, and Other Stuff
- Liberty Bill 2
- Treat Washington, DC as Part of Maryland for Congressional Elections
- Adult Patrol Chant
- Writing Scores for Sight Reading
- Gnossiene No 1 by Erik Satie (PDF score for easy sight-reading) (.mscz)
- Miscellaneous links
- Counting SLOC papers,
inc. "More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux’s size"
- SLOCCount, a program to measure SLOC
- Linux Kernel 2.6: It’s Worth More!
- Totro, a random name generator (also:
Totro.pl)
- Auto-DESTDIR (automates installation)
- User-union (Union filesystem for unprivileged users)
- Readable s-expressions and sweet-expressions for Lisp-like languages
- html2wikipedia
- quoter, translates HTML, SGML, and XML quotation marks
- Apple ][ stuff
- 6502 development approaches
- Don’t Use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF)
- Eliminate Software Patents
- The DeWitt clause’s censorship should be illegal
- The Waterfall Model
- Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames (discusses newlines/tabs in file names, etc.)
- How to easily open files and URLs from the command line
- Make it Simple: A Tale about Robert Dewar
- Introduction to the Autotools (autoconf, automake, and libtool)
- Automating DESTDIR for packaging
- Python 3 in Python 2
- Easy and Cross-Platform GUI development FLOSS tools with Unix/Linux support
- SCM Security
- My review of Debugging by David J. Agans
- Simple and Readable Text Markup Languages vs. Rich Web Text Editing
- Quotes in HTML
- Notes on Fedora Linux
- Virtualbox and Fedora Linux
- Configuring Apache for Client Certificates (such as DoD CAC cards) on Red Hat Linux/CentOS