Here are some, and by no means all, of the press articles Richard has featured in, or had his work reviewed in over the last five years. This does not include hardcopy interviews and covermounts from several magazines which cannot be reproduced due to copyright. These documents are in Adobe Acrobat format (version 5.0 - 7) - for current press information please see Secure Computing Magazine, Linux Journal, Linux Format Magazine, BBCi and other sources.

All media work is co-ordinated through Nik Barron of Secure Computing Magazine and all requests for information or copy must formally be communicated through him directly. Richard is represented by Wildfire PR in the United Kingdom and Europe.

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Published Date Article Details
November 2000  SmoothWall - SmoothWork - interview with Richard - Linux User Magazine
November 2000 SmoothWall 0.9.4 4 first real commercial review in the world - Linux User Magazine
January 2001 LinuxPlanet interview Richard on release of SmoothWall 0.9.4
April 2001  Australian PC Magazine - SmoothWall and home networking in Australia
July 2001    Brian Proffit revisits SmoothWall 0.9.8 for LinuxPlanet magazine
August 2001  Fire Fight - Linux User sees SmoothWall save a charity thousands
December 2001 ComputerTotaal Magazine Holland pick up on SmoothWall and Richard & Lawrence's work
February 2002 Estonia's national PC magazine focus on SmoothWall (page 2 here)
June 2002 ZDNet UK pick up on a $100k prize to hack SmoothWall
July 2002 Geek.com also report the $100k prize and free for all in failure to hack SmoothWall
August 2002 Linux Magazine interview Richard and don't use a spellchecker (page 2 and page 3 here)
October 2002 Linux Format review 0.9.9 and Richard and Lawrences work beats all competing technology
October 2002 Secure Computing give SmoothWall top marks and a full clean bill of health
November 2002 PC Pro Magazine award SmoothWall GPL a finalist runner up award beaten by Mac OS X
November 2002   Secure Computing magazine's Nik Barron highlights SmoothWall as technology to beat
December 2002 Linux Format publish a review of CS 2.0 (see page 2 here)
March 2003 PC Pro Magazine describe Richard's work as the "Ultimate Firewall" in 4 page review
March 2003 Richard announces resignation as director of SmoothWall Ltd and announces intent to sell.

In 2002 Richard formally initiated a relationship with US Robotics - the worlds largest modem manufacturer.  This then became a partnership with Lawrence and Richard working hand in hand with US Robotics USA and EMEA. This continued thorughout 2002/3 with  creation of US Robotics  retail wireless devices and access points available the world over. Read more about the partnership online here.

Richard has also created access points, ADSL devices and router firmware for amongst others Sputnik, Fujitsu, Westell and SparkLAN. You probably use or have used a device that Richard has had a hand in inventing or developing without even knowing it. Many US airports and rail terminals now rely on roaming technology developed and written entirely by Richard under licence.

His technology also features in devices manufactured under licence for US Defence Department (secure battlefield technology), NASA and US Department of Homeland Security for whom he has provided security consultancy post 9/11 and in use in secure voice over IP tools and protecting federal assets.

Case Studies and White Papers

For white papers and case studies of SmoothWall products from the company Richard founded of the same name in 2000. The SmoothWall products are used to protect millions of networks large and small in many parts of the world from small home office users through to Governments and Institutions, Corporates and Household name conglomerates. SmoothWall now has offices in 31 countries worldwide and is recognised in the top ten of all Internet Security companies based on profitability and technology adoption. A far cry from the concept created in a small spare bedroom and produced as a cottage industry in it's early inception. Although Richard exited SmoothWall as CISO and majority shareholder in 2003 his products are still being released in new guises and in packaged format. Recently recommended (June 2005) as one of the top security solutions available worldwide in the industry press.

You can read a few dozen real life case studies of how technology Richard and Lawrence created protect people by visiting the excellent SmoothWall website

Electronic Media

Due to copyright issues the US Television segments and TechTV clips are unable to be linked to or reproduced here. Google is your friend and there are more than a few interviews and TV spots that you can find from the last five years.

FOSDEM - Richard's talk to FOSDEM in Brussels 2000/1 is available from their website in RealPlayer format.

Radio

Richard is regularly mentioned on LUGRadio, taking part as a technical specialist on BBC Radio 5 Live broadcasts, and recently was referred to on BBC Radio 4 (broadcast 3rd June 2005) for his work on anti-abuse and botnet removal from networks in the UK and work with law enforcement. You can listen to this in MP3 format from either mirror below by right clicking on either link and selecting save as.. and then playing the file locally.

Earlier BBC Radio 5 Live and US radio slots will be available in MP3 and OGG format in the coming weeks.


SmoothWall was founded by Richard Morrell and Lawrence Manning in July 2000 and the trademark SmoothWall is a registered trademark of SmoothWall Ltd and Richard Morrell. Secure Computing, PCPro and Linux Format are trademarks of their relevant owners. All rights reserved. US Robotics and other trademarks are the registered and patented names and trading names of their relevant owners. All graphics and text on http://www.dickmorrell.com/ is copyright © 2000-5 Richard Morrell. Segments of broadcast shows and transmissions remain the copyright of relevant copyright holders and are reproduced with permission.