Paranoid Linux is an operating system that assumes that its operator is under assault from the government, and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret.

What follows is a simple description of a way I use to additionally "shield" my important files (a daily "tar" I take every night through a cron job), so that even if some sectors hosting them are lost, I still end up salvaging everything.

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use.

The Nano-X Window System is an Open Source project aimed at bringing the features of modern graphical windowing environments to smaller devices and platforms.

Webconverger is simply a Web kiosk/terminal, that is easy to deploy and secure. In most cases all you need to do is boot from a CD.

Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME.

Colorifer is a wrapper to run program and colorize it's output. [sic]

Openswan is an Open Source implementation of IPsec for the Linux operating system.

s3fs is a fuse filesystem that allows you to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a local filesystem. It stores files natively and transparently in S3 (i.e., you can use other programs to access the same files). Maximum file size=5G.

Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and automatically backup data easily and securely to Amazon.com's S3 Storage Service.