Look for schools that teach Information Assurance or Digital Forensics. It's normally a CS track.

Google's desktops are Ubuntu based, their servers are Fedora based, however their nix apps appear to be lacking.

I give it 4 months until data.gov is accidentally connected to everyones wiretaps or the SSA database. ooops. I can see it now [slashdot]320 million social security numbers were posted on wikieleaks after data.gov ....[/slashdot]

The same should be said for Google and Yahoo then. They have the ability to link illegal material such as some types of pornography, some types of music and some types of other copyrighted material. That is why we can't go down that road. Google, Yahoo, all of the search engines I supposed would be considered to, 'help break the law'. Besides once we ban search engines, then only criminals will be able to search.

Re: my post above about TOR, this is a far better solution. Glad to see it (.onion) posted. DNS still runs outside of the network AFAIK unless you take the time to tunnel everything.

TOR IS NOT SECURE! But by all means keep using it. It does nothing for security of data i.e. encryption. It is only encrypted from you to the exit router. From the exit router to the destination it is clear text if it started that way, such as http. Https would remain encrypted. Further your DNS not encrypted and finally, layer 7 info could be used to track someone down. If you don't believe me, install the routing service, fire up wireshark, become an exit router, and start capturing data on http, smtp, etc etc.

I noticed this same thing from Suddenlink, I was being redirected when I input an invalid address in the url bar. I knew what it was after some searching. I ran Wireshark to verify what was going on. I also verified I was not using their DNS servers. I have my own DNS servers locally and with one of my leased servers. I also ran the same test with the server at 4.2.2.5 and they redirected me. When I emailed them I received this response [quote] Thank you for your inquiry. Suddenlink is committed to providing the best customer service possible. The Suddenlink search page can only automatically redirect you if you're using Suddenlink's DNS servers at the time of the incident. You state you're not using our DNS servers. Please note that it's impossible to get redirected to the search page on DNS servers other than Suddenlink's, due to the nature of the redirect and the fact that it's done by the DNS server. I notice you're using a Cisco/Linksys router. Please check your manually configured DNS settings on both your router and your computer to be sure you are using the DNS servers that you want to be using. We hope that we have been able to provide you with the information you requested. If we have not, or if we can be of any additional service to you, please do not hesitate to contact us again. Did you know that you can speak with a live agent without picking up the phone? It's Easy! Simply Click on the link below and let us assist you with your general or account specific questions. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for your convenience. http://www.suddenlink.com/chat.do Thank you for choosing Suddenlink Communications "Easy as counting to one." [/quote] So according to them it is impossible. Even though it is happening. I just blocked their address space and moved on. I know better than to deal with their customer support after they told me I couldn't pull down an address because they no longer used gateways. I asked if they were on pfm modules, which they replied yes. pfm = pure freaking magic.

Same Xandros install for a year now (tried some other distros and reverted). I use open office and firefox and that's about it on there. I use advanced mode FWIW. People who are screwing it up I imagine would have the same issues if they poked around the Windows registry. I tried a few other distros but prefer 100% over 99.5% functionality. But then again I ordered my 701 the day it came out. Takes less than 20 seconds to restore system to factory which was kind of nice when I was tinkering. But whatever...different strokes for different folks. I wouldn't assume that nix works for most. Most people want a computer to do what they think they want it to do, not to do what they tell it to do. I need a computer to do what I say ...... rm -rf /.

People are choosing Windows because they don't know any better. Xandros which came on one of my netbooks was quite intuitive and anyone who can figure out XP can figure out that particular distro. If being limited to 3 apps and no external display is was drives the masses (windows 7) then so be it. I had the opportunity to demo gnome for a customer who has had significant problems with other setups. In few minutes, firefox was up, open office was up and they were using the computer. Only time and anti-competitive practices will tell.

I'm not looking for a handout, I'm looking for better tech. Further, 3g has far better upload in my area than cable/dsl. 150kbps up 3g. 60kpbs cable (max is around 110 in my area if I wanted SuddenSuck to gut me some more). 60kpbs handles my 4 trunks perfectly. I wouldn't see it as unreasonable to dump cdma/gsm and raise the cost of packet network access assuming it cost them more.

Why are we not on VoIP over 3g? Seems like the industry is fighting that. My VoIP connections sound far better than any other connection, land line or cell.

Since your the ISP if your sharing, how do the p2p lawsuits work?

Well you could get a new drive and put the old platters in it. The clicking is a power issue I believe. But I wouldn't RMA it myself. Drives are cheap. Next thing you need to do is start using some form of encryption, if you have financial information and other important docs. Further, you should have a backup scheme that lets you walk away from almost any failure other than your house falling down. Some will say use the offsite consumer storage companies, but I have dealt with many and many of them plain old sucked. If your comfortable with ssh, just get a cheap shell account somewhere that allows backups, avoid the GUI backup terd companies.