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William Pretty
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Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today. Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies. Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on the subject of technical security. For a number of years, he was also a guest presenter at the Western Canada Technical Conference, a law enforcement-only conference held every year in western Canada. A selection of these papers is available for download from his website.
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Configuring PuTTY


Now that we have the firmware installed, it is time to access it using PuTTY. In order to do this, we must first configure PuTTY:

  1. To start PuTTY, select the Session category and set the Connection type to SSH. Enter /<relay_domain> in Host Name (or IP address) and 22 in Port. For example, for my relay domain, williamprettysecurity-system1-ssh, the Host Name would be seen as in the following screenshot:

    Session category

  2. Select the Connection category and set Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off) to 5.

    Connection category

  3. Check the Disable Nagle's algorithm (TCP_NODELAY option) checkbox. (This will make the connection more responsible.)

  4. Navigate to Connection | Proxy and set Proxy type: to HTTP. Enter try.yaler.net in Proxy hostname and 80 in Port.

    Proxy page

  5. Navigate to Connection | Data and enter root in Auto-login username.

    Data page

  6. Select the Session category, enter a name such as SSH via Yaler in Saved Sessions and click Save.

  7. Now that we have PuTTY configured to...

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William Pretty

Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today. Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies. Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on the subject of technical security. For a number of years, he was also a guest presenter at the Western Canada Technical Conference, a law enforcement-only conference held every year in western Canada. A selection of these papers is available for download from his website.
Read more about William Pretty