Considering where I work, I see a LOT of police, sherriffs, state troopers, probation officers, etc, and I know what some of the police are capable of (only what they been trained, in a lot of cases (more $$$ in the private sector), I am going to say his probation officer is both semi computer illiterate, and low on time.
Otherwise, he could set up a Windows box to capture traffic going through it's shared connection, and any that is Encrypted, be considered a violation of his probation.
Now that wouldn't stop things like A bootable distro Using a seperate network card, with a seperate address and internet connection etc. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: James Sissel [email protected]
<snip> "On a brighter note, this shows it's harder for the government to spy on you if you use Linux." </snip>
That's what they want you to think.