Links for 17 October 2008:

Links for the week of 17 October 2008:

• YouTube – Journey by a London Bus (1950) – in the event you needed a bit of a refresher, please take note of this
  film, kindly produced by the colonial film board, on how to ride a
  london bus
• The Things He Carried – The Atlantic (November 2008) – Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.
• YouTube – RFID Implant in Hand Do It Yourself -
• Fast, Cheap and Sustainable: Ex-Pentagon Geek Plots Disaster Relief 2.0 | Danger Room from Wired.com – The project is called STAR-TIDES (Sustainable Technologies, Accelerated Research-Transportable Infrastructures for Development and Emergency Support). The acronym may be long, but the concept is simple: it is supposed to pull together cheap and effective solutions for humanitarian emergencies or post-war reconstruction.
• Plug Pulled on Hamas’ YouTube Ripoff – A few weeks ago, Western intelligence officials discovered that the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas had set up a video-sharing site — to spread propaganda and to train would-be terrorists. Now, that radical Islamic answer to YouTube is offline. And jihadists are blaming the FBI for the takedown.
• A DNA Database for Counterterrorism – DNA samples of thousands of suspected terrorists from Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been collected and preserved in a little-known U.S. government database that is intended for forensic intelligence and counterterrorism purposes.
• Designing a Malicious Processor – Hidden malicious circuits provide an attacker with a stealthy attack vector. As they occupy a layer below the entire software stack, malicious circuits can bypass traditional defensive techniques. Yet current work on trojan circuits considers only simple attacks against the hardware itself, and straightforward defenses. More complex designs that attack the software are unexplored, as are the countermeasures an attacker may take to bypass proposed defenses.
• U.S. Cockpits – cockpit images
• everystockphoto – searching free photos -
• Free Stock Photos at freerangestock.com – Totally Free Stock Photography and Textures! -
• http://www.morguefile.com/archive/ -
• Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers – Six Revisions -
• stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site -
• Liam’s Pictures from Old Books -
• ITA Software: Trip Planner – airplane ticket service used by many travel agents
• Collect Russia Collect Russia Soviet Russian – various military artifacts
• Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Podcasts – Lapham’s Quarterly Editor Puts Events in Context
• BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool – dna sequence search engine
• Turbo-charged wireless hacks threaten networks • The Register – “Brute force decryption of the WPA and WPA2 systems using parallel processing has been on the theoretical possibilities horizon for some time – and presumably employed by relevant government agencies in extreme situations – but the use of the latest NVidia cards to speedup decryption on a standard PC is worrying.”