A Marine veteran and former military working dog handler offers some tips on how to train your dog. While training your dog can sound daunting, and after trying to convince my own dog that my bed is not in fact, her bed, or that squirrels are not plush chew toys she should eat, I realize…
Author: The Tactical Hermit
Armed Texan and Part-Time Bard.
ISIS Corner: Why ISIS is Destroying Libya’s Oil
A very clear and concise article that explains one of ISIS’s main characteristics when it comes to Strategy: If they cannot control it or make money off of it, they Kill it. -SF For the second time this month, massive clouds of black smoke from burning oil billowed above Libya. The first time, in early…
Campus Carry in Texas Still Under Attack by Non-Compliant Universities
Students for Concealed Carry respects that university presidents and system chancellors have a difficult task in implementing the state’s new campus carry law, and we commend institutions such as the University of Texas at Tyler and Texas State University for addressing legitimate concerns while respecting the clear intent of the law. Unfortunately, a handful of…
Another Reason to Be Armed: Dallas Store Owner Wins Gunfight with Bandits, Frees Wife as Hostage
A gunfight in Dallas on 26 January, 2016, shows that you do not need to be a professional gunfighter to win. Bunthan Te owns the Shop-N-Go store in the 4900 block of Columbia Avenue, in east Dallas, with his wife. Three robbers go into the store at about 10 p.m., with weapons. Te sees what…
Sharpen your Cyber-Skills: How to Make Your Own NSA Bulk Surveillance System
OF ALL THE NSA surveillance documents Edward Snowden leaked, some of the most important exposed the spy agency’s so-called XKEYSCORE program, a massive system for vacuuming up and sifting through emails, chats, images, online search activity, usernames and passwords, and other private digital data from core fiber optics cables around the world. XKEYSCORE, which the…
Sharpen Your Cyber-Skills: NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him OUT of Your System
IT WAS THE talk most anticipated at this year’s inaugural Usenix Enigma security conference in San Francisco and one that even the other speakers were eager to hear. Rob Joyce, the nation’s hacker-in-chief, took up the ironic task of telling a roomful of computer security professionals and academics how to keep people like him and his…
Espionage Files: From Pacifist Sheep Farmer to One of Britains Greatest Secret Agents
Occupied France, 1944. Francis Cammaerts stepped from a train onto the railway station platform in Avignon. Almost immediately, German security forces at a checkpoint became suspicious and asked for his papers. The son of a Belgian poet and English actress, he was everything you would never expect in a secret agent. Cammaerts had been a pacifist and conscientious objector…
Device OPSEC: If You Use an LG Device, Read This!
Millions of LG phones at risk, Israeli team discovers For the second time in a month, researchers at cyber-security firms BugSec and CyNet have discovered a major security problem that leaves tens of millions of users at risk For the second time in a month, an Israeli team has uncovered a major security breach built…
Jihadist Does Dry Run at Paris Disneyland: Is America Next?
Not fear mongering, just trying to guess the next move. And the last line in this article is a joke and shows the complete naivety of Political Correctness that infects this world currently when it concerns islam and terrorism: “We don’t know if he had the intention of causing harm.”… ??? Really?? You don’t know huh?…
HIDDEN CAM: Gun Show “Loophole” Exposed!
Don’t believe the hype on Full-Auto folks..your friendly liberal President, Talk Show Host and Celebrity are all Talking out of their ASS when they say you can go and buy one “really easy…”