links for 2008-06-30

This is a really interesting piece on Al-Qaeda’s communication network.

An Iraqi visits America and tells of her impression of it, really fascinating story, must read.

Schneier on why cameras don’t add to our security and are just a waste of money.

This is bad, first major invasion of privacy, second we don’t know the profile of a terrorist so gathering all this informaiton really does nothing other then give computers a bunch of data that doesn’t tell anything.

This is going to be an interesting case.

Please Microsoft rebuild all of Windows from scratch, you need to.

For as many security features you create there will still be a way around them.