Some random items of interest:
- Dambella report. The "Aurora" botnet attack on Google and other businesses was the work of relatively unsophisticated criminal hackers. Another leg of the extremely well funded public campaign to hype a "state vs. state" hacking threat that can generate defense contracts worth tens of billions of $$ crumbles. In contrast, the global guerrilla approach to cyberwar was early and on target (I said the same in the Economist a couple of weeks later). More support for this is available in Foreign Policy magazine's "China's Hacker Army."
- An oldie but goodie from 2004: a post on how financial parasites help drive disorder (in this case, it was 3 years before oil hit ~$150 a barrel and 4 years before the global financial crisis/fraud hit the fan).
- Hacker in a nutshell. Peng Yinan
- Chris Hedges. There are no constraints left to halt America's slide into a totalitarian capitalism.
- DIY UAVs continue to advance rapidly. Hexacopter. VERY fast mover w/lots of maneuverabilty. GPS station keeping. Significant payload. Auto retrieval. No data on endurance. Camera mount. Wiki. Lots of related videos.
- The USAF is confused over how to handle drone pilots. Resistance is futile. Drones will dominate USAF operations by a large margin. Until the AF gets that fact, it will be in bureaucratic crisis.
- Opsec issues with Facebook for Israel.
- Web enabled P2P renting of equipment. Rentalic is an E-Bay for P2P rentals.