The study of the web as a graph is not only fascinating in its own right, but also yields valuable insight into web algorithms for crawling, searching and community discovery, and the sociological phenomena which characterize its evolution. We report on experiments on local and global properties of the web graph using two Altavista crawls each with over 200M pages and 1.5 billion links. Our study indicates that the macroscopic structure of the web is considerably more intricate than suggested by earlier experiments on a smaller scale. A new issue of Crypto-gram with the usual good stuff, as well as some very interesting links. The upshot of this is that the marketplace does not reward real security.
Real security is harder, slower, and more expensive, both to design and to implement.
Since the buying public has no way to differentiate real security from bad security, the way to win in this marketplace is to design software that is as insecure as you can possibly get away with. And finally in food news, tofu is bad for you , and animal fat is good . Yeah, he may be a little off the deep end wrt the evils of Microsoft and the conservative mind-set and the lizard brain. On the other hand, he may not be. Also, more notes on eBay, systems analysis and design, and more books to read.