http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2008-ICSE-4kernel/html/Spi08b.html Quote from the article: “Therefore, the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is that open source development approaches do not produce software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software development.” A subjective code quality study for linux, windows, solaris and freebsd operating systems kernels
http://blog.jgc.org/2011/03/how-not-to-post-security-article.html an excellent follow up on a hoax story about Samsung installing keyloggers on its laptops.
http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/updated-w32stuxnet-dossier-available Stuxnet was a targeted attack on five different organizations – see the update posted by Symantec’s researchers. They have analyzed data from anti-virus software and made a graph based on IP and stuxnet version – this shows 5 different targets.
http://rdist.root.org/ blog by Nate Lawson, a good blog to follow if you are interested in InfoSec
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf Richard Faynman 1974 commencements speech at CalTech, that defined the term “Cargo Cult "
http://lwn.net/Articles/418918/#Comments Interesting discussion on LWN about an article describes problem with packet loss on home broadband networks due to improper buffer sizes in various network gear (routers, cable/dsl modems, switches, etc) along the route path.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269 excellent article about trustworthiness of medical research
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/whats-wrong-with-the-american-university-system/60458/ Interesting interview with Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors of “Higher Education”
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2 A great presentation [from google] about how people interact socially in the real life and how current social networks represent them. (Needs about 30 min to read)
http://www.comptel.org/ website of the association of communication service providers and their vendors ( virizon, L3, cisco and the likes ]