Index of Articles, Interviews and Short Fiction
 
Digital Gods, Digital Religions

Entering Sacred Digital Space 2003
Computer Applications for Spirituality 1993
In Search of the Grail
1995
The Future Shape of Religious Structures
1997
The Interior Castle
1997
Finding the Answer Within 1996
The Face We See In The Digital Mirror 2005

UFOs: Interviews and Reflections

Are There UFOs on Mars?
A Reflection by Richard Thieme
2005


Interview with Captain Edgar Mitchell, astronaut and moonwalker, Apollo 14

Interview with Frank Drake, Project OZMA and SETI, author of the Drake Equation estimating the frequency of advanced civilizations in our galaxy

Interview with Peter Sturrock, Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Stanford University

Interview with Russ Estes, Hollywood producer, co-author of The Abduction Enigma

Interview with Mark Rodigher, Scientific Director of CUFOS, The J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies

Interview with Jill Tarter, head of Project Phoenix, SETI

Interview with John Schuessler, Executive Director of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), former director of engineering for McDonnell Douglas

Interview with John Alexander, Science Advisory Board of NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science) and author of Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty- First-Century Warfare

Interview with Julie Hill, daughter of Paul Hill, NASA scientist and author of Unconventional Flying Objects

Interview with Thomas E. Bullard, folklorist

Interview with Richard Haines, NASA research scientist (ret.) and former Chief of the Space Human Factors Office at Ames Research Center

Fragment of an Interview with Philip Klass, Contributing Editor, Aviation Weekly and Space Technology

Interview with Kevin Randle, author of books on the Roswell incident and The Abduction Enigma

Interview with Walt Andrus, Director Emeritus, MUFON (Mutual UFO Network)

Notes from an Interview with Stephen Greer, The Disclosure Project

Hacking Culture and the Hunger for Knowledge

Hacker Generations 2003
Computer Security is No Sure Thing 2000
Hacking the Future 2000
The Magic is in the Mix 2000
OS Guard Dog: An evaluation of Argus System's Pitbull 2000
Don Quixote of the Hackers 1998
The Canary in the Network 1999
The Enemy Within 1999
Designing the Future 1999
Hacking Chinatown 1997
Hacking as Practice for Transplanetary Life in the 21st Century 1996
Zen and the Art of Hacking
1997
Off With His Hands
1997
An Interview With Se7en: Part 1
1996
An Interview With Se7en: Part 2 1996
BO2K Brouhaha 1999

Digital Culture and Life Online

Cyborg Creep 1999
Scents and Sensibility 2000
Cybersleuth 1996
Marketing on the Net
1995
Bridging the Chasm
1996
Closing the Gap
1996
Pornography on the Internet
1996
The Spirit of Success
1995
Japan On-line: Can the Japanese Adapt to a Gaijin Community?
1996
The Internet as a Model of Change 1996

On the Edge

An Interview with Steven Miles:
The torture-endangered Society
2006
The Future of Networks 1995
Stalking the UFO Memo on the Internet
1996
Knock, Knock:Biometric Identifiers and Human Identity
1996
Mars and the Internet 1997

Short Fiction

Zero Day: Roswell 2006
SETI Triumphant 2006
More Than a Dream 2006
My Summer Vacation 2006
The Last Science Fiction Story 2006
Gibby the Sit-down King 2006
Road Warrior 2006
It’s Relative 2006
The Necessity for Invention 2006
The Importance of Responding Rightly to Critical Information 2006
Peter the Great 2006
Species, Lost in Apple-eating Time 1999
Dancing in the Air 1999
Break, Memory 2005
Incident at Wolf Cove 2005
The Riverrun Dummy 2005
The Geometry of Near 2005
Scout's Honor 2005
Nice Things 2005

Book Reviews

A Review of Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense
By Jonathan Moreno .
2007

The Missing Times:
News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up
By Terry Hansen.
2001

Out of Control:
The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
By Kevin Kelly.
2000


Torture and Truth:
America, Abu, Ghraib, and the War on the Terror.
By Mark Danner.
2005

America's Secret War:
Inside the hidden worldwide struggle between america and its enemies.
By George Friedman.
2005

Interviews of Richard Thieme

An Interview with Whitedust Security Portal

Interview with the Linux Journal

Interviews on Information Security

CyberSecurity Czar
Richard Clarke has been America's de facto security czar for eight years. Facing an uncertain future in the Bush Administration, Clarke reflects on the state of national security and his role in bolstering it.
An Interview with Richard Clarke

2001

We're the Freedom People
Attorney Jennifer Granick has made a career out of defending the little guys, a mission that takes on added dimension in her new post at Stanford Law School's Center for the Internet and Society.
An Interview with Jennifer Granick

2001

Profile of a Profiler
Best known for creating an accurate profile of the Unabomber, retired FBI agent Bill Tafoya now works on 'identifying the hollow people of
hackerdom.'
An Interview with Bill Tafoya

2001

A Mentor's Mantra
Former Navy man Stephen Northcutt has new marching orders: train defenders to think like attackers.
Interview with Stephen Northcutt

2001

Chief Cypherpunk
Crypto star Ian Goldberg moved from academia to industry but his passion remains 'to live in a world where I can communicate securely and privately.'
An Interview with Ian Goldberg

2001

Bob Weaver and the Electronic Crimes Task Force
From the rubble of the twin towers, the Electronic Crimes Task Force
chief rededicates himself to serving the servers.
A Profile

2001

James Atkinson and Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM)
In the world of corporate espionage, this counter-surveillance specialist is the man to call.
A Profile

2001

Center of Attention
Career FBI agent Ronald Dick has been given the mission of maturing the scope and capabilities of the National Infrastructure Protection Center.
An Interview with Ronald Dick of NIPC

2001

An Interview with Stanley Stash Jarocki
of the Financial Services - Information Sharing and Analysis Center
Commentary on NIPC

2001 - the original transcript

An Interview with Lou Leffler
Program Director, NAERC (North American Electric Reliability Council)
Commentary on NIPC

2001 - the original transcript

Howard Schmidt Goes to War
An Interview with Howard Schmidt

2002

Automating Cyber Defenses
Four of infosec's cutting edge thinkers examine how intelligent systems might analyze, understand and automatically respond to attacks.
A Round Table with Bill Cheswick, Phil Porras, Matt Bishop, Gary M. Jackson

2002

The IDS Den Mother
Becky Bace has made a security career out of building communities to overcome technical challenges.

2002

Interview with Becky Bace
The Complete Transcript

2002

Sun's Security King
Cryptography pioneer Whit Diffie offers illuminating views on his ascension to Sun Microsystems' CSO.
An Interview with Whit Diffie

2003

Interview with Whit Diffie
The Complete Transcript

2003

Top Guns
When Mind and Machine Meet in the Cockpit of a SOC

August 2002

Looking for Light in the Fog of War:
What Insurance Can and Can't Do for Security Risks a conversation with David O'Neill, VP for E-Business Solutions for Zurich North America Financial Enterprises.
Secure Business Quarterly
2001

Earthlink: A Case Study in Comprehensive Security
a conversation with Lisa Ekman, Vice President of Infrastructure, and Lisa Holt, Director of Information Security
Secure Business Quarterly
2001

More Than Human: The Network is More Than the Sum of its Parts when Disaster Hits
a conversation with Bob Weaver of the NY Secret Service after 9/11
Secure Business Quarterly
2002

Risky Business: An Interview with John Sekevitch, VP of Secure Computing's Professional Services unit. 1999

Uncompromising Position: An Interview with Richard M. Smith, a computer consultant who helped identity the originator of the Melissa Virus. 2000

Banker's Trust: An Interview with Guy Tallent, CEO of the Identrus PKI Consortium. 2000

Battle Zone: An Interview with Bruce Schneier, CTO of Counterpane Internet Sceurity and author of Applied Cryptography. 2000

A Wizard Gets Wiser: An Interview with Marcus Ranum, Chief Technology Officer of Network Flight Recorder. 2000

All Geered Up: An Interview with Dan Geer, CTO of @stake Computer Consultancy and President of USENIX. 2000

A Selected Bibliography

Short fiction has been published in:

Analog Science Fiction
Ascent
Combat
Puckerbrush Review
Timber Creek Review
Porcupine
Zahir
Karamu
anotherealm.com
Pacific Coast Journal
Potomac Review
Red Wheelbarrow
Heartlands
Circle Magazine
Listening Ear
Nth Degree
Down in the Dirt
Phrack

Non-fiction articles and reflections have been published in:

Forbes
Salon
Information Security
The Gardian (Infragard)
Secure Business Quarterly
LAN Magazine
Village Voice
LA Weekly
South Africa Computer Magazine
Wired
Counter Punch
Common Dreams
alternet
Internet Underground
National Catholic Reporter
Asia Times Online
.net
Internet Today
Pravda
rebelion
ATTAC Madrid
Computing Japan
Business Times of Singapore
Convergence (Toronto)
Computer Underground Digest
CTHEORY
DoubleClick
Ethical Spectacle
Small Business Times
Computer Mediated Communication
Skeptica (Denmark)
Milwaukee Business Journal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Informatiebeveiliging (Netherlands)
Now Magazine (Toronto)
Future Briefs
Access Control & Security Systems
Phrack
The Witness ...

Articles have been anthologized in these collections:

Digital Delirium
Cyber Reader II
Cyberculture (UK)

Fiction has been anthologized in these collections:

CyberTales: Live Wire
Chaos Theory
Distinguished Writing: A Master‘s Journal

The short story, Gibby the Sit-down King, published in the Timber Creek Review, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

©2005 Richard Thieme. All Rights Reserved.