Why Simplex locks (for doors) are bad. I was looking for a solution for a customer's physical security needs and Decius mentioned that Simplex was bad, bad, bad. Here's why.

Black Market Press - Simplex Locks, An Illusion of Security

I actually found this to be a fairly comprehensive, but a bit abstract, paper on providing information security with a "Defense in Depth" strategy. Recommended reading if you are looking to fill out the edges of your knowledge or are doing research.

NSA's 'Defense in Depth' Paper

Well, this looks like it may be "the" answer to SPAM. I'm not sure, but it's definitely interesting. The author makes some mention of training it to look at syslog and firewall output which I find very interesting.

I'm wondering whether I might be able to turn Snort into an adhoc anomaly detector using this. The main intention being some kind of pro-active tool for identifying either attacks or items that need to be tuned out as false-positives. Perhaps my tool could make "recommendations" on how to handle traffic to an operator or information analyst.

CRM114 - Mutable Regex & Bayesian Spam Filter

PBSes Frontline special on SUV safety.

frontline: rollover | PBS

A list of signs seen at the Jan 18th peace demonstration in San Francisco. Stolen without permission from the comments in a sf.indymedia.org forum. There were many more. Some of them extremely witty. My memory is just bad...

- Gung Ho for Peace!
- United We Sit on Our Asses and Watch TV!
- Got Oil? Got Apathy? Got Terror?
- Who Would Jesus Attack?
- If the Twin Towers were in Baghdad, would they be on the target
list?
- Bush -- an Empty Warhead
- In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
-- Rabbi Herschel
- Jews say, "Oy vey! Enough war already!"
- Jews and Arabs Alliance for Peace (with website)
- You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb to Peace.
- US-imposed Sanctions are the Weapon of Mass Destruction of
Children
- STOP World War W
- Stop Shopping! Start Thinking!
- the shopping bag flag graphic that appeared everywhere after
Sept 11, 2001, a bomb visible in it, the letters at the bottom
saying, "Don't Buy It!"
- A large flag carried reverently on wooden staff with eagle
finial, pinned to it a sign: Don't Drag the Flag in Oil!
- You Are Responsible for What Your Flag Stands For
- Iraqi and American children need Peace
- held by an elderly man in a carefully preserved uniform: 84
and opposed to war
- Afghan Vet for Peace
- Peace by Any Means Necessary
- Ask survivors of Wounded Knee about domestic terrorism
- Casualties of US Terrorism (double column of countries'
names followed by figures of tens or hundreds of thousands,
or millions), a website credited in the lower corner

President Bush's economic stimulus plan could triple the size of a little-known tax loophole that some small business owners are using to finance purchases of large SUVs

Dubya is NOT a Big Oil Man, right?

AWESOME. The helicopter photos are finally here. You're not going to believe them. Especially the last couple that show Market St absolutely packed for blocks and blocks!

Helicopter Pictures of SF Demo : SF Indymedia

I just thought I would follow up with a couple of key items that I heard while listening to the speakers.

The first is that the SF board of supervisors is planning on voting Tuesday for a resolution condemning Iraq, joining many other cities in pursuing this course and showing that local politicians can and do think globally.

Second, the International ANSWER folks who organized the rally hired a helicopter this time to take video footage. This is their answer to a lack of coverage and a media tendency to downplay the numbers. I am really looking forward to seeing this footage which should convey how massive this event was.

I was really quite impressed with their organization of the event which in general, with the exception of the "breakaway march", was well handled.

Interestingly enough the crowd was very diverse and clearly shows that resistance to the war in Iraq is filtering through many walks of life.

Resist War. Resist the War on Iraq.

Another key picture. Just look at this mass of people.

SF Gate: Multimedia (image)

A picture from the SF Chronicle. This is a a view from the southwest corner of the plaza in front of City Hall in San Francisco. As you can see the people extend out for just about as far as the eye can see.

SF Gate: Multimedia (image)