"Ethical hacking" -- that's one POV, anyway ;-) This would be electronic snooping by government agencies of suspected bad guys?

Just so that doesn't sound too loaded, I am ambivalent about it, not hard core against it.

>You sound like me. I think I'm addddddd. I was in a class all last week on "ethical hacking". I had their desktop which had a vnc into another machine, which had a virtual pc running on it. I had my laptop next to the desktop and I was going from one thing to the next, checking email, this place, facebook, oh and the lecture and labs....
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>>Some employers allow the UT to be used as a research tool. I actually leave it open all day and just pop on when I'm looking for information or am waiting for some process on my other machine to run. Better than twiddling my thumbs :o)