In a recent CBC news article, near the end are two paragraphs about farmers in Africa. This project where "women used cellphones to send information back to their farmer husbands about which crops were fetching the best prices", helped farmers earn more for their crops. The article doesn't state how much the increase was, just that it exceeded $200 per month. The project was funded by Canadians. The article in full, Inexpensive windup laptop could help poor countries: prof

I decided to go through my logs to find out how popular certain names are in hacking attempts.

This is what I found will stop the success of all of the attacks so far:
1. Make sure you're using usernames that are not found in a dictionary - any language. And also make sure they are not given names from any language. These are all words used in the dictionaries of the scripts used to attack SSH services.

2. Use the following list for usernames to stay away from. These are names collected from the automated attacks on the SSH (port 23) on a FreeBSD server. They are sorted by popularity first and alphabetical order second.