1.	Cyber Security: Beyond the Maginot Line by William Wulf

Speaker William Wulf, in testimony to the House Science Committee, assesses the need to implement secure systems: the need for a new model of the threat to replace the Maginot Line model; the need for a new definition of cyber security; the need for active defense; and the need to coordinate with legal and regulatory systems.
http://www.house.gov/science/full/oct10/wulf.htm (9 pages)

2.	Beware the Kindness of Strangers: The Case Against Good Samaritan Hackers by Richard Forno

Speaker Richard Forno suggests that until organizations resolve their security issues, we should accept Good Samaritan and rogue hackers as a part of life in the Information Age, despite the fact that what they are doing is illegal.
http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/70 (4 pages)

3.	You Say "Hacker", the Feds Say "Terrorist" by Richard Forno

Richard Forno posits that by lumping hackers in with cyber-terrorists, the government is demonstrating a fundamental inability to understand either group. The result: what the author calls "heavy-handed" legislation like the anti-terrorism bill.
http://www1.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/column.html%3Fid%3D38 (3 pages)

4.	How to Plan During Uncertain Times

Author Hugh Courtney talks about his new book, 20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World, the four levels of risk, and how to implement a decision-making strategy in uncertain times.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/h_courtney_1.html (8 pages)

5.	The Internet Under Siege by Lawrence Lessig

According to speaker Lawrence Lessig, as courts and corporations attempt to wall-off portions of cyberspace, they will end up destroying the Internet's potential to foster democracy and economic growth worldwide.
http://www.ttivanguard.com/bru_reconn/lessig.pdf (10 pages)

6.	Real Artificial Life: Where We May Be by David Ackley

Artificial life (AL) research typically uses computers to implement models of living systems. But there is now a feeling that computers are themselves some kind of living system. What impact would this have on AL research? Speaker David Ackley addresses that question and looks backwards and forwards at the rise of living systems in computer and communications systems.
http://keys.ccrcentral.net/ccr/writing/ReAL/ReAL.pdf (10 pages)

7.	Where Hackers Teach the Art of Self-Defense by Susan Carpenter

At a little school in Paris called the Hackademy, regular people learn how to protect their cyberspace. Students have included grandparents and businessmen, and they study introductory hacking techniques, how to secure web sites, network vulnerabilities, and exploiting network protocols.
http://www.ttivanguard.com/bru_reconn/hackademy.pdf (3 pages)

8.	Designing for Resilience by Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins

Chapter 13 from the book Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security, originally written for the Department of Defense in 1981. This chapter was an early effort to synthesize the elements of resilient design that could be inferred from biology and a variety of engineering disciplines.
http://www.rmi.org/images/other/S-BrPwr-Parts123.pdf (Chapter 13 starts at page 189 of the PDF - 37 pages)

9.	Complexity and Robustness by J.M. Carlson and John Doyle

The authors compare and contrast several methods to develop a general framework for studying complexity, with particular emphasis on Highly Optimized Tolerance (HOT). They discuss models, concepts and abstractions for the "new science of complexity" or "complex adaptive systems."
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~doyle/V/pq04u2002538.pdf (8 pages)

10.	Mesh At Work by Gerry Blackwell

Internet service providers and equipment vendors have only recently begun to embrace mesh network architecture. This article profiles a small northern California ISP's use and deployment of mesh products.
http://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/business/2002/vista.html (4 pages)

11.	Mr. Liikanen Comes to London by Michael Parsons

A brief profile of Erkki Liikanan, the European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society. His current mission: make telecom markets more competitive and get Europe's governments and citizens online.
http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0428/2610.html (2 pages)

Additional articles and sites:

Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
Established in 1988 and dedicated to General Matthew B. Ridgway, the mission of the Ridgway Center is to address, in innovative and exciting ways, the new security challenges facing the United States and the international community. Located in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) , the Ridgway Center's focus is on research, education and training, and outreach.
http://www.pitt.edu/~rcss/index.htm

Transnational Criminal Networks
Speaker Phil Williams details the growing use of fluid network structures by organized crime. Many old-style criminal hierarchies are reorganizing into sprawling transnational networks. This chapter is part of a recently published book by the Rand Corporation called Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/MR1382.ch3.pdf
For the table of contents and links to other chapters in the book, http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/

Hackerz Voice
The voice of the information pirate is mainly in French, but there are some English links under the "medias" section.
http://www.dmpfrance.com and http://www.dmpfrance.com/presse.php

Rick Forno's InfoWarrior Commentaries
Additional "rants" by speaker Rick Forno.
http://www.infowarrior.org/commentary.html

John Doyle's work on complex networks
A site with links to papers on complex networks, complexity and robustness.
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~doyle/V/