An interessting talk (local copy) from Van Jacobson and Bob Felderman from the Linux.conf.au 2006 about the history and future of implementing networking stacks:

“The way we’ve always done it is not necessarily the same as the right way to do it”
The background is that the networking stacks we know today were initially created for MULTICS [...]

There are two interesting papers:

“One Size Fits All”: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone (local copy)
The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) (local copy)

Both papers try to argue that it’s time to break with the mostly religious belief, that traditional Relational-DBMS
architectures – once designed for business data [...]

The Blackhat USA team released the video and audio files on Dan Kaminsky’s DNS talk (local copy).

There is a very nice but older Google Tech Talk by Joshua Bloch on “How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters” (local copy) which was also the keynote on the Library-Centric Software Design (LCSD’05). The talk is also available as video. From the conference announcements:
“Every day around the world, software developers spend [...]

William A. Sethares and Rick Johnson wrote an interesting book on a more and more hot topic in wireless technology but also security research:

Telecommunication Breakdown: Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio
There is also a PDF-version of this book available.
An brief introduction on Software-Defined Radios can be found in Michael Ossmann’s Black Hat 2008 talk [...]

This song as MP3 (local copy):
Properties of the Fourier Transform
(or, Fourier’s Song)
Integrate your function times a complex exponential
It’s really not so hard you can do it with your pencil
And when you’re done with this calculation
You’ve got a brand new function – the Fourier Transformation
What a prism does to sunlight, what the ear does to sound
Fourier [...]

The UK’s “Center for the Protection of National Infrastructure” has recently released a paper called “Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol” disposing the myths of the warfare-safe Internet design. Actually the main goal of the ARPANet was sharing the access to large supercomputers, not the security within this “mostly private” network.
Perhaps the paper is a [...]

Today, when the door bell rang… IT arrived!

THE “WAR ON TERROR” BOARDGAME
“It’s got suicide bombers, political kidnaps and intercontinental war. It’s got filthy propaganda, rampant paranoia and secret treaties and the Axis of Evil is a spinner in the middle of the board! You can fight terrorism, you can fund terrorism, you can even be [...]

Von Max von Bock Alternativ auch via YouTube: [ Teil 1 ] [ Teil 2 ] [ Teil 3 ]

The National Science Foundation has created great and very interessting site on the history of the NSF-/ARPA-/INTERNET.

“The challenges and and possibilities are out there, waiting for the next group of dreamers to change the world once again.”