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Colt’s iconic “snake guns” have captivated revolver enthusiasts for decades, and Day 4 of Revolver Week delivers a head-to-head comparison that feels like a celebration of that heritage. In this video, the spotlight is on two charismatic variants of the modern Colt Python .357 Magnum — the classic 3-inch model and the more tactical Combat […]
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Marques Griffin, 30, told police he heard a noise in his apartment on
Robin Hood Lane Thursday morning and found a man in his living room.
Police say Griffin followed the intruder outside and fired three shots as the man ran away. The suspected burglar died at the hospital.
Griffin is now being held at the Shelby County Jail.
On January 11, 1571 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II granted Austrian nobility freedom of religion. — January 11, 1966: 550 people died in landslides in the mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after a huge rainfall. — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are available for Pre-Ordering. Orders should start to be mailed in the last week of January. To be sure that you get yours, order soon! — Although it is quite blatantly pro-monarchist, the only fairly complete coverage of the anti-Khameni revolution in Iran seems to be coming from the YouTube channel Tousi TV. – JWR …
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Effective January 1, 2026, the ATF eliminated the $200 tax on firearm suppressors. This change will undoubtedly encourage many shooters to purchase or make a suppressor. In this article, I will share information for those new to suppressors to be able to make an informed decision as to whether to pursue getting one (or several). As a disclaimer, I have no financial involvement with any companies or products mentioned here. What are firearm suppressors? A firearm suppressor is a muzzle device mounted on a shotgun, rifle, or pistol to reduce the sound made when the gun is fired. They are …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Learning Center Leering Center Learing Center King Learing Center News Links: Daycare accused of multimillion-dollar fraud shifts blame for ‘revealing’ mistake above its front door… as kids are suddenly ‘trucked in’. Minnesota’s infamous Quality ‘Learing’ Center is now closed, records show. Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, …
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Republican lawmakers are urging President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the Democrat warned he could deploy the National Guard in response to federal immigration enforcement actions in his state.
"Invoke the Insurrection Act. Arrest Tim Walz," Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., said in a post to X on Wednesday evening.
Miller’s calls to apply the law, which gives the president powers to arrest suspects obstructing federal law enforcement, follow Walz’s suggestion that he might deploy the National Guard to push back on President Donald Trump’s use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
As member of Congress pointed out, calling out the National Guard to resist federal law enforcement is what started the Civil War. It is also what Democrats did when ordered to integrate public schools. Does Tampon Tim want to find out what military extraction feels like? Trump can go ahead and federalize the Minnesota National Guard and then they report to him, not Elmer Fudd.
Have y'all been watching the crap going on in Iran over the past couple of days? It's hearting up and it looks like the people might overthrow the mullahs.
I'm sure that the violent spasms are not over yet, but it seems that the Iranian people might get their country back.
Let Freedom Ring
U.S. Trade Deficit Fell to Lowest Level Since 2009 as Tariffs Reshape Trade
The monthly trade deficit continued to shrink in October after President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports, the latest data showed.
If you are not clear on why this matters: every dollar that goes over there beyond what comes back is available to buy stuff here: land, factories, stock. Regular trade deficits lead to gradual absorption of our economy in foreign sometimes unfriendly hands.
12/24/25 Guardian (just before the fertilizer hit the fan):
In December, the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said the hijab was crucial “to preserve the dignity of women and to restrain very strong and dangerous sexual urges”, heralding the start of a new push to enforce the dress code laws.
Within days, the security forces intensified their hijab enforcement. The organisers of a popular marathon race in Kish Island, off the southern coast of Iran, were arrested and accused of “violating public decency” for allowing women to run unveiled.
If the only think that keeps Muslim men from raping women is the face and other epidermal parts are covered, what does that say about the effectiveness of Muslim moral teaching?
I understand the desire not to provoke unnecessary lust, but if Ahmad can see the skin around her eyes, he can certainly imagine her lips and other parts a little lower. Maybe Ahmad just needs blinding? I think the ayatollahs may have a serious projection problem.
Forget about the Internet and security for a moment - you already own something with a firewall. Your car has one between the engine and the passenger compartment, even if your car isn't a sweet 1969 Dodge Charger.
The firewall in your car is designed to contain engine fires to the engine compartment, not letting the flames spread to the passengers. Firewalls have been around cars for a long, long time - certainly since the 1930s, and probably a lot longer.
Now back to the Internet and security. Internet firewalls are designed to keep bad things (and Bad Guys) out of your network, so they don't burn down all your devices. Yes, I stretched that metaphor, but that's exactly where the name came from.
An old Internet wag once described a firewall as a device that "keeps the bad guys out while letting the good guys out". That's a really good description. Internet firewalls have been around for basically as long as there has been an Internet, say from around 1990. The technology is very well understood, and very mature. That's the good news.
The bad news is that there are a million ways to set up your firewall so it's more full of holes than Swiss cheese. This post will try to help you avoid this.
More good news: your Internet Provider almost certainly has a firewall capability in hte box that gives you Internet access. For example, if you get Internet via cable TV, you have not only a cable box that changes channels, you have a separate box that gives Internet. That thing has a firewall built in, so yay.
You an check this yourself via a web site that I've linked to a number of times over the years, Steve Gibson's Gibson Research. You should see something that looks like this:
Green is good.
So what went on when you ran that? There are a bunch of Internet services like web, email, and so on. Each uses a "port" - email is 25, web is 80, there are a bunch of others. What Gibson's app did was to try to connect to all of these posts on your IP address. Ideally, your firewall (like mine) dropped these connections in the trash can.
So from a first cut, your firewall is letting you out onto the Internet (so you can read this, hello!) but keeping the Bad Guys out.
But the devil is in the details of how we (and our devices) use the Internet. The next post in this series will explore this: Secure Your Home Network: Can (and should) you trust your devices?
Carrollton police said its officers responded to the call and found out that the 16-year-old had gone to the hospital and died from his injuries.
Officers found out that the shooting happened in the roadway between two vehicles: one occupied by the 16-year-old who died and four other teenagers and another with a 20-year-old Carrollton resident. Police interviewed the other four teenage passengers and found out the five teens were meeting the 20-year-old man" under the pretense of selling illegal substances, with the intent to commit a robbery."
Police said the 16-year-old male brandished a firearm, which resulted in the 20-year-old acting in self-defense. The four teenagers were all charged with Aggravated Robbery, and the 20-year-old man has not been charged, police said.
"Now I will not lie, it feels kind of like cheating making fun of this Ready-Player-One-ass car. Can you imagine rolling up to the club in this shit? The wealthy of our era are so jaw-droppingly tasteless they have finally invented a Rolls-Royce that you could not get laid in."
-sometime automotive journalist Victoria Scott on a Bespoke program Rolls-Royce
Just some excellent writing there. Like, John-Phillips-at-the-1990s-height-of-his-powers cackle-out-loud funny. I'm legitimately envious of a few of those turns of phrase.
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On January 10, 1776, the “Common Sense” pamphlet by Thomas Paine was first published, advocating American independence. — January 10, 49 BC: Julius Caesar defied the Roman Senate and crossed the Rubicon, uttering “alea iacta est” (the die is cast), signaling the start of civil war and his appointment as Roman dictator for life. — And January 10th, 1776, was the day that North Carolina Governor Josiah Martin issued a proclamation calling on the king’s loyal subjects to raise an armed force to combat the “rebels”. This ultimately led to Colonel Donald McLeod leading the men on an assault on …
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(Continued from Part 2. This concludes the article.) The final aspect of emergency cooking stoves that I cover are biomass units, in particular the Kelly Kettle. I appreciate the ability to configure these units to either “cook” on or quickly boil water with. The small feed openings at the bottom or the chimney opening on top of the kettle do restrict the size of materials used to feed the flames when compared to other small biomass cookers. None the less, the kettle’s speed and efficiency for boiling water as well as its lower weight and ruggedness impress me. The final …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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“Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, …
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It did not last long. The Duma had a quorum problem because so many MPs were outside getting free bibles.
Today's weirdness. 1/8/26 Times of London:
The United Arab Emirates is restricting students from enrolling at British universities over fears that campuses are being radicalised by Islamist groups.
Officials with knowledge of the situation told The Times that federal funding was being limited for citizens who hope to study in the UK, citing concerns about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood among other issues.
This CBS News report includes what the officer saw. You can hear the collision when she struck him.
Police say that a man who was found dead at a construction site in Pomona over the weekend was killed while trying to steal copper wire.
Residents in the surrounding area said they could hear the explosion just moments before thousands of homes lost power on Sunday at around 2 p.m. ...
Police say that the man wasn't a worker, but that he was instead stealing copper wire from the vacant strip mall that was in the process of being demolished.
Today I took several .38 handloads up to the range, along with my Ruger 50th Anniversary Blackhawk chambered for .357 Magnum, and my S&W Model 15-3 Combat Masterpiece, chambered for .38 Special. Here are the results:
All strings below are 10 shots.
From a Ruger 50th Anniversary Blackhawk .357 with 4-5/8" barrel:
.38 Special
21 grains Swiss 3Fg black powder
Missouri Bullet Company 158 grain LRNFP with BP lube
Mixed brass
Servicios Aventuras primers
MV 845.5 FPS
250.9 Ft-lbs.
ES 61
Max 881 FPS
Min 820 FPS
SD 16.7
.38 Special
21 grains Schuetzen 3Fg black powder
Missouri Bullet Company 158 grain LRNFP with BP lube
Mixed brass
Servicios Aventuras primers
MV 655.9 FPS (Weak sauce)
151.2 Ft-lbs.
ES 94.7
Max 712.9 FPS
Min 618.2 FPS
SD 27.8
From a Smith & Wesson Model 15-3 Combat Masterpiece with a 4" barrel:
.38 Special
Lee TL158-SWC, 158 grains
4.7 grains of Unique
Mixed brass
Servicios Aventuras primers
MV 842.5 FPS
249.8 Ft-lbs.
ES 162
Max 906.1 FPS
Min 744.1 (WTF?)
SD 47.8
.38 Special
Lee TL158-SWC, 158 grains
4.4 grains BE-86
Mixed brass
Servicios Aventuras primers
821.1 FPS
236.6 Ft.-lbs.
ES 42.8
Max 842.8
Min 800
SD 14
The BP load with Swiss would be decent for defense. This is probably comparable to the original black powder .38 Special round in muzzle velocity, with the same weight bullte. In contrast the Schuetzen load is so slow it performs closer to the weaker .38 Smith & Wesson round.
I crunched the numbers on the Unique load after dropping the low shot. It gave an average muzzle velocity of 853.5 FPS for 256 Ft.-lbs. of energy. Bumped up to 5.0 grains it averages 925.4 FPS and 301.2 Ft.lbs. of energy. That's a very solid woods or defense load.
The load with BE-86 exceeds most standard pressure 158 grain .38 Special loads in performance. Not bad at all. With a couple extra tenths of a grain it could probably exceed 900 FPS and give .38 +P levels of performance.
These books represent years of painstaking research and labor. The information presented is invaluable and the cost of producing limited run copies is great. [More] Knowledge is power. Those who have it know that.
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Hat tip to Gary Hughes for bringing this "Wild Bill Hickok vs. Major Frank North" drill to my attention.
From The American Mercury, October 1937:
"Did you ever see Wild Bill Hickok shoot?"
"Many times."
"Was he pretty good?"
"Yes. But Frank was better.
Even Bill said so."
"Just how well could they shoot?"
You put up a letter envelope ten paces away, and if you could keep all six shots in the envelope you were counted good. One of the sbots had to be in the stamp which was pasted on the back of the en-velope, in the center."
"How big were the envelopes?"
"Five inches square. And the stamp an inch square."
Course of fire:
- 10 yards
- Primary hand ONLY
- Six shots
- All must hit within the 5" square
- One must hit the center stamp, 1" square
- No time limit
I shot it today with three of my pistols. I passed easily with the Ruger 50th Anniversary Blackhawk, shooting my .38 Special black powder handloads.
I did not pass this test shooting two of my double action revolvers: my S&W Model 432UC .32 H&R Mag and my S&W Model 15-3 shooting .38 Specials. Shooting double action with only one hand I have a tendency to push the point of impact to the right, which caused shots to lands outside the 5" square. While I can nail these targets shooting two-handed, I need to work on my one-handed double action shooting.
I actually did better with the 432UC J-Frame than the Model 15 K-Frame, but I shot the Model 15 last and had already done a fair amount of shooting by that point. I.e., I was tired.
Give it a try. You may find it more challenging than you think.
Link to the target: https://thetacticalprofessor.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/hickok-v-north-stamp.pdf
Edit: Most likely this is the Major Frank North referred to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_North
This could be our salvation– these psychotics are incapable of moderating their behavior and their actions may end up horrifying a critical mass. Unless psychotics in government beat them at it. [Via Michael G]
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Newsom Press Office: ‘Activist’ 9th Circuit Judges Want ‘Gunslingers’ in Streets [More] Funny, nobody took me up on my hundred bucks challenge… Via bondmen]
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“Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney Stanak, Senate President Phil Baruth, and members of Gun Sense Vermont will gather at the Statehouse on Wednesday to renew their push for a bill banning guns in Burlington bars.” [More] I wonder what text, history, and tradition have to say about that? [Via bondmen]
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Venezuela’s Most Dangerous Socialist Diosdado Cabello Warns They Have ‘Monopoly on Weapons’ in New Show of Strength [More] Yeah, that’s the plan here, too. [Via bondmen]
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Teen charged with 2022 murder claims to have shot 400 people in lifetime [More] I’d suggest my namesake law, but I just found out it’s racist. [Via Steve T]
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Newton Grove Police Chief Greg Warren was arrested Wednesday on charges that include secret peeping and indecent liberties with a minor. [More] Life imitates art. [Via Steve T]
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NYC Leftist Protesters Call for Hanging of Kristi Noem and the Execution of ICE Agents [More] Gee, wherever do they get ideas like “an ICE agent murdered Renee Good” from? What J6 rhetoric did they go after Donald Trump for again? [Via Michael G]
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Surprise, surprise, surprise! So, why aren’t we hearing this from any “real reporters”? And I could swear DOJ has some forensic accountants and RICO laws at their disposal… [Via Michael G] Related UPDATE Growing List Of Democratic Billionaire Kings & Queens Funnel Millions Into Terror-Tied Nonprofits [More] That won’t turn the tumbrels around. [Via bondmen]
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Is it too late to investigate if a vulnerable prosecutor was coerced into dropping the case? Because his “justification” held no water. [Via WiscoDave]
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Step inside America's infantry museum! Located in Columbus, GA this is one of the must-visit museums.What are we still even doing in the UN? [Via WiscoDave]
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A Boston police officer is on leave after he was arrested and charged with domestic assault last week, court records show. Ricardo Alexandre is charged with strangulation or suffocation and assault and battery on a family or household member… [More] And that’s after ” “sustained findings … for violations of ‘Conduct Unbecoming,’ ‘Alcohol off Duty,’ … Continue reading "We’re the Only Ones Porcine Enough"
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Man fatally shot, police sergeant injured during standoff in Mass. town… Shots were fired as police attempted to conduct a wellness check on a man who had made a call to the FBI that “sparked mental health concerns,” officials said. [More] Maybe they should have sent in some of those “violence interrupters”… National Threat Operation … Continue reading "We’re the Only Ones Worsening Enough"
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Trump Threatens to Denaturalize U.S. Citizens If They ‘Deserve’ It [More] They say that like it’s a bad thing…
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Florida Carry invites you to join us for an Advocacy Day Wednesday Jan 28th 2026. We will be meeting with Senators and House Representatives. Our main focus will be regaining the Constitutional Right of 18,19, and 20 year old Floridians to purchase firearms. [More] Moms’ll be there. Will you?
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It’s from 2017 and there is context. Bull$#!+ context, true… [Via JG]
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Texas’ homicide rate declined… [More] You’d think with open and permitless carry there’d be blood in the streets.
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None of this is done to disparage recognized and deservedly lauded good and unprecedented positions being taken by DOJ that would, admittedly, never have happened under any other administration to date. But that does not require Second Amendment advocates to turn a blind eye to when those positions turn cognitively dissonant. [More] “Friendly fire” can … Continue reading "Gun Prohibitionists Siding with DOJ on NFA Registration"
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Paul Howe is one of the nation’s recognized experts on the use of firearms in life-threating stress situations. Here he talks about the importance of using the manual safety on powerful weapons deployed under extreme pressure. If you’ve never heard of Paul Howe, I’m glad we caught you in time. When this man talks, professionals […]The buoy strategy has already faced legal and diplomatic challenges, with the Mexican government and left‑wing activists arguing the floating barriers endanger illegal crossers and may violate treaty obligations on use of the Rio Grande. [More] They had me at the headline. They didn’t need to sell me. Still, what’s this got to do with … Continue reading "Buoy, Am I Glad to See You!"
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Two wounded in Portland shooting involving federal agents after DHS says vehicle ‘weaponized’ against them – Border Patrol agents stopped a vehicle that DHS says was being driven by a Tren de Aragua gang member [More] For some reason, the Alice’s Restaurant line about one, two, three, then 50 people joining in came to mind. … Continue reading "And Friends, They May Think It’s a Movement"
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- Elon's deepfake non-consensual porn and CSAM generator catches even more heat.
- Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
- The Most Underrated Sports Car of the 2000s
Hattiesburg resident Tristan Young, 25, has been identified as the armed robbery suspect who died after a victim fired in self-defense during a shooting Monday in D’Iberville, according to Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer.
D’Iberville Police Chief Marty Griffin said officers responded around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5 to a reported shooting in the 11000 block of Cinema Drive.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Cold Hits Don’t Lie: Measuring Real Shooting Performance I like starting every shooting session with a consistent drill I shoot cold to track my performance over time. In this article, Tatiana suggests several good […]By Dave Workman New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced plans to “strengthen” Empire State gun control laws by, as stated in a news release from her office, “cracking down on 3D-printed and illegal firearms.” Hochul, a Democrat, has her sights set on 3-D printed guns and so-called “ghost guns,” and according to her press […]
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On January 9th, 1580, Francis Drake‘s ship the Golden Hind struck a reef off the Celebes islands. It fortuitously slipped off the reef at high tide the next day and sailed onward to Java, and then around the Cape of Good Hope and back to Plymouth, England. — January 9, 1839: Louis Daguerre demonstrated his ‘daguerreotype‘ photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are selling rapidly, in pre-ordering. The limited number of them packaged in steel keepsake tins have sold out. But there are still plenty of the standard sticks …
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(Continued from Part 1.) The next topic is water. I begin with the low hanging fruit of having water stored at all times. It hurts my soul to thoughtlessly parrot the “one gallon per person per day minimum” tripe we have all heard so many times. My recommendation is to store no less than three gallons per person per day or ten gallons each. I follow this up by encouraging each family set a goal of having a five-gallon water jug set aside for last minute filling for each person. For those who lament storage space, I recommend the collapsible …
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After some huge price swings in the last week of the year, the Silver Bull has resumed his charge. As of Tuesday afternoon (January 6, 2026), spot silver was at $82.06 USD per Troy ounce. I expect a few gasps of short-selling today, but $70 seems to be the new floor for silver. I’m holding to my prediction that silver and platinum will continue to outperform gold’s gains. The formerly languishing price of nickel has spiked. Surprisingly, we still have the opportunity to stack Nickels (U.S. 5-cent pieces) at face value. The U.S. Mint recently stopped producing pennies. I believe …
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“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
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We went to Shreveport this morning to pick up Belle's daughter at the airport. She's going with them on the cruise.
We stopped in Natchitoches for a bit of history and a bite for lunch. Belle's favorite restaurant is closed this week for a thorough cleaning and remodeling. We went around the corner to another restaurant and ate po'boys.
This is the beginning of a new series about what (mostly) non-technical readers can do to lock down their home networks to a decent level of security. I need to start with some caveats here:
- It's pretty easy to protect yourself from "script kiddies" (Bad Guys who just use canned exploits without knowing much (or anything) about you or your home network. Hopefully the posts in this series will make you, if not impervious to, at least unreasonably difficult for these attackers.
- It's harder to protect yourself from a knowledgeable and determined attacker. Someone with skill, time, and motivation to attack you is a dangerous opponent. Hopefully the posts in this series will increase the required time, skill, and motivation needed for these Bad Guys to succeed. Basically, it raises the cost for them to attack you which is A Good Thing.
- At the end of the day, you can't protect yourself from NSA or FSB (the KGB successor organization). Or the Chinese, who are quite active and skilled. Even keeping them from sniffing out your traffic is really, really hard. If you think that any of these organizations are likely to want to access your computers, then you should unplug from the 'Net right now. Not kidding.
So if you're interested in this kind of thing, and are willing to spend a nominal amount of time and money to raise the bar on your home network security, follow along on this series of posts.
Tomorrow's post: What is a Firewall and why do you care?
Getting in and out of the bush isn't always easy, but a good ride makes it a lot easier. For comfort and utility, you can't beat a good Can-Am.
