I have never even considered this when applying for any job that I've ever had, from entry-level computer tech at a local business to systems admin of a fortune 100 company, to developer for E-commerce solutions, to starting my own company. I have plenty of my life on the internet, including job applications, old employers, photos, forum posts, videos, etc and I have never been denied any of my previous jobs, which *MIGHT* happen to include all of the above positions. Even going into something like PCI compliance, I can't imagine someone, or someone's HR department caring, or even thinking of caring.

If you're trying to get into government contractors, or government security positions requiring a security clearance, then they already know, in a zine or not. I would make sure that I provided a thorough explanation to even have a hope at passing their screening process. If you're applying somewhere, let's say Ebay... are they really going to look through your results? Really?

The only possible explanation that would make sense is either if the position is a very high level (CXO, President, etc) at a medium to large size company, or into politics and government. Do you really think that Time Warner knows the google results of a senior level network administrator, or cares? (Hint, they don't)

Paracelsus, sometimes called the father of toxicology, wrote:

        German: Alle Ding' sind Gift, und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, daß ein Ding kein Gift ist.
        "All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."

That is to say, substances often considered toxic can be benign or beneficial in small doses, and conversely an ordinarily benign substance can be deadly if over-consumed. Even water can be deadly if overconsumed.

(Ripped right from Wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus ] )

So, 500 years ago, this would have been news?

Does anyone else think that 31 million might be kind of a small sum of money to "reinvent the Internet"?

Filter packets coming in AND going out. Use an IDS with a firewall. Monitor destination IPs and ports.

It only works on copper 10/100 networks. Plugging into a GigE network will cause major problems, especially if you're plugging it in where there is likely good information to be sniffed (i.e. close to the locations POP/DMARC).

Yes, you can buy commercial taps for Gig, but I wonder if those would insert any delay into the network (both certainly do when you have to unplug the cables to plug in your tap...)

Rick Astley is under Sony/BMG. Let the Rick-rolling continue!

A 64-Bit OS that can address my 8GB of RAM and has drivers supplied for it by almost every company? I dunno, that's why I put vista-64 on my latest Desktop. I use it mostly to run office and VM-workstation with windows server products as a testing environment (and several flavors of linux).

With a 9800GT, a Phenom 9650, and 2 SATA disks with 8GB of ram, it seems to run fine to me.

(My laptop runs Linux, my macbook runs OSX)

Why not look at the source for govt backdoors, rootkits, or whatever?

....or red hat, or suse, or maple, the get back to us.

Agree, I have a Skytel 2-way for work and it's impossible to sleep through.

I also have a separate cell for work. We route incidents to the pagers first (so that the assigned on-call people can respond and the rest can have our pagers on silent at 3am).

Then, if a threshold is serious enough, or the incident is not resolved in xx minutes, the alerts are sent via SMS to all cell phones on the most annoying and loud alert ever (which everyone on the project/team will get).