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Mr. MacPherson has written and published papers and articles during his career.  Below are several articles and white papers on topics ranging from computer security to network design.  
IP Spoofing and TCP Sequence Number Prediction
An account of Kevin Mitnick's alleged exploitation of Tsutomu Shimomura's personal computers.  Hard to believe this was seven years ago!  Thanks to Peter for the logs.  
Published in 2600 magazine - Summer 1994
Introduction to CGI and CGI Vulnerabilities
A discussion of Common Gateway Interface features and the exploitation thereof.  
Published in  Phrack  magazine - issue 49.  
Pretty HTML version  thanks to  Markus Hubner
Packet Sniffing
Notes from a talk given at DEFCON in Las Vegas, 1997.  My most popular talk, judging from the page hits.
Distributed Server Architecture White Paper
This white paper describes the distributed Internet back end that was designed and constructed for one of my employers.  Ben Lyon helped me to design and build this back in 1999.  
Installing Oracle client software on FreeBSD
This paper describes the process developed to allow PERL programs running on FreeBSD to communicate with an Oracle RDBMS on a Solaris server.
 
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