links for 2007-12-06

Great wide-reaching interview. “There will never be a global repository for public keys, for the same reason there isn’t a single ID card in your wallet. We are more secure with distributed identification systems.”

A review of a session by Jeff Patton focussing on the difference between incremental and interative development. The mona lisa diagram explains it all in an instant.

Made it to 1.0

Fascinating dissection of a spam botnet – “The list of email addresses assigned to the RonP_3 task is simply titled “goodâ€. In the backend Reactor files, this file is 3.4 gigabytes in size, and contains 162,211,647 email addresses.”