WORLD VIEW

Networks touch everyone's life every day every hour every second. Think of the Internet as superhighways with many entrances and exits (actually both are done through the same access point. An INTRANET (private-network) is the same as the Internet, it just desn't allow open access to it's road like the Internet. Most intranets are connected to the Internet but control access in and out of their "road". Why? To protect sensitive information from you know who, others with bad intentions, to keep all sorts of data, fiscal, personal, to keep their communications private. Why using public lines isn't always good. No security. The most powerful corporations in the world are those that control the communications/network infrastructure. Nobody rides for free. You can use their network system (called piggybacking) like the 2nd tier communications companies do (ie. Sprint, etc.) Sure, they pay the price but they also can offer the same coverage areas as their big brother, VERY important. Verizon and ATT call the shots in America and elsewhere because they are both semi-world wide. But every first world country has their own ATT. If the Native peoples rely on the Corporations infrastructures, they have acheived no freedom at all. On your own intranet, you can offer all the things that they do (even cell phone service) totally free from their grasp. And greed. An intranet offers you freedom from cable companies, phone companies, computer hackers, government snooping and even telemarketers. Hmmm, government snoopers and telemarketing calls, yuck. By the way, Verizon and ATT BOTH roll over for the Federal government and every alphabet agency you can think of. If you are using public lines (they own them), the FBI has cracked your Network. And if you use any kind of Microsoft operating system, the bad guys are in your computer. The new Windows 7 operating system has the usual back doors (secret entrances) built in by the engineers but the NSA installed 5 (count �m, five) of their own backdoors. Most newer laptops come with Windows and a hardware keylogger BUILT-INTO the laptop. A keylogger is a device or software program that records your EVERY keystroke, then releases the information on command to whoever is hacking you.     What can you do for privacy and security? Leave corporate software and hardware behind forever. Build your own "boxes" that weren't hacked by Dell or Hp or Compaq or....the FBI. Actually, the FBI isn't smart enough, they have to hire hackers to do the dirty work. Just because you get a brand new Dell or HP computer, you have no idea if that "box" has been tampered with. And Microsoft? I may be Microsoft certified but I tell everybody to run Linux. People tell me, I would but I need my Office programs for home and work. No problem, the Open Source Community has a replacement, Open Office, for free. If you know Microsoft Office, you know Open Office. Many users tell me they like it better than the Microsoft version. Maybe because it works right. Any popular program or system that Microsoft produces, has a free equivalent from Open Source. Databases. Graphics (The Gimp instead of Photoshop), multimedia. Need to use a Windows program? Linux has WINE, a ms-dos/windows emulator that lets you install almost any kind of Windows application. Even my Pokerstars. Most people today don't realize that Linux boxes run most networks, the Microsoft servers just act as Microsoft program servers. There is a very good reason for that. Linux boxes never crash or freeze up. They work the way they are supposed to. You don't have to reboot your Linux server like the Microsoft servers several times a day. Microsoft operating systems aren't really a true system. They are using NTFS (NT file sytem) which is obsolete, and put a huge program on top. Then called it Windows.

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