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Sharpen Your Cyber-Skills: NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him OUT of Your System

Posted on 29 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Singularity- Future Tense or Tense Future?

Posted on 22 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

A Sci-Fi short story about homeland security at the edge of humanity   Singularity Secretary Turing was still half asleep, restlessly tossing in bed, trying to shake the visceral angst she had been building up throughout the night. She was somnolent enough to continue her dream yet awake enough to realize it was rapidly becoming…

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10 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Protect your Home

Posted on 19 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Never worry about leaving your home unprotected again. Editor’s Note: This article by Jonathan Stern was originally published on Fatherly, a digital lifestyle guide for men entering parenthood.   If somebody is trying to open your sliding glass door in the middle of the night, chances are they’re not Jehovah’s Witnesses. Because every house on…

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Historic “Militia Moment”: PPN and Oath Keepers call on FBI

Posted on 14 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

I think this was a  very smart move by the leadership of these organizations to open up a line of communication with the Govt. It goes a long way in establishing LEGITMACY for what they are doing. Some good questions are asked in the below bolded paragraph BTW. -SF   Note from Stewart Rhodes, Founder…

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Calculating your “Threat Score”

Posted on 12 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

As technology advances in our society, those sci-fi movies that everybody thought were outlandish and far-fetched will start being seen as harbingers. After reading this article, watch a few minutes of the movie “Minority Report”. “Psychic Technology” is nothing more now than an advanced algorithm. -SF FRESNO, Calif. — While officers raced to a recent…

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U.S. Voter Database Mysteriously Appears Online in the Open

Posted on 5 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

A misconfigured database has provided users of the World Wide Web access to 191 million voter records. White hat hacker Chris Vickery happened upon the leaky system and sent CSO’s Steve Ragan his personal voter record to prove it. “It was current based on the elections listed. My personal information was accurate too,” Ragan writes….

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The Oregon Militia Standoff Explained

Posted on 3 January 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Since my initial post on Patriot Convoy 2016, It appears things in Oregon are heating up..here is a recap from Vox.-SF   A militia protesting the “tyranny” of the federal government seized the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday and, in a video posted to Facebook, called on “patriots” from all…

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The Anti-Gun Agenda and The Dangers of “Swatting”

Posted on 21 December 2015 by The Tactical Hermit

The City of Dallas has released a video and a “Frequently Asked Questions” guide to advise the public about changes to Texas open carry laws that will go in effect on January 1, The Dallas Morning News reported. Citizens with concealed carry permits will be allowed to openly carry handguns in non-prohibited areas. Realizing that…

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A Case Study Why Government “Encryption Back Doors” are a BAD Ideal

Posted on 20 December 2015 by The Tactical Hermit

ENCRYPTION BACKDOORS HAVE been a hot topic in the last few years—and the controversial issue got even hotter after the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, when it dominated media headlines. It even came up during this week’s Republican presidential candidate debate. But despite all the attention focused on backdoors lately, no one noticed that…

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The Sixth Dimension: DOD Could declare the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum (EMS) a Domain of Warfare

Posted on 14 December 2015 by The Tactical Hermit

The Defense Department’s recent emphasis on the importance of the electromagnetic spectrum could be coming to a head, as the department is considering recognizing the spectrum as a sixth domain of operations, in addition to land, air, sea, space and cyberspace, which officially was declared a domain in 2011.  In a statement to Breaking Defense, DOD…

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