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Harden Digital Life Series – Part 4: Encrypted Email


Understanding and adopting encrypted email is a vital step in hardening your digital life. End-to-end, zero knowledge, open source, encrypted email is not overly complicated to use. But you need to understand the positive, negatives, and essential tightening steps. Later articles will go more in-depth on how to lock down ProtonMail and Tutanota. PR...

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5 Day Pistol Course - Lesson 3

Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 3 Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 10 X dummy pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment:1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 10 X dummy pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names) PRELIM...

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5 Day Pistol Course - Lesson 2

Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 2 Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 10 X dummy pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment:1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 10 X dummy pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names) PRELIM...

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Community Defense - Part 1


We live in a networked society 330 million in the US (of 370 million total in North America), sustained by a complex infrastructure with both private and public/governmental components that provide a means of exchange, deliver power, transport goods and services, enable communication, and maintain civil order. Kick out one leg of a three-legged sto...

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5 Day Pistol Course - Lesson 1

Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 1 Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment:  12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 10 X dummy pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment: 1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 10 X dummy pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names)...

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Harden Digital Life Series – Part 3: Lock Down Your iPhone


"APPLE IS EVIL!" That may be true, but the tech is hard to let go for many, especially with so few decent alternatives that have a better privacy record out there. Many will find some of the following setting changes to be too impractical and that is normal and fine, everyone should make their own changes - balancing their threat level with ease of...

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Nuclear War - An Overview

Introduction We grew up during the Cold War (the long standoff between the US and USSR superpowers and their respective alliances) under the constant background threat of nuclear war. We didn't necessarily understand it very well - even the military, academic, and scientific communities did not - but it was a constant presence in our lives. Since t...

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Shooter, Train Thyself

We will be posting complete firearms training curricula on this site. Here's why. Lawless, violent threats to U.S. citizens are mounting. Violent crime rates that began a long decline from earlier highs in the 1990s are once again climbing rapidly in much of the country. These increases are much more pronounced in urban areas, where illegal drug tr...

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Security Analysis

Security Analysis provides a foundation for all forms of planning, preparedness, and security in the face of threats to our well-being. It calls for a hard and disciplined look at our surroundings, which helps us to anticipate threats, recognize them when they appear, and prepare in advance to manage or defeat them. Security Analysis has several co...

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Site Survey

A Site Survey characterizes a defined location (for instance a home, neighborhood, or business), looking closely at factors that are generally under your direct control. Boundaries, barriers, access and egress, routine activities and profiles, everything that constitutes a potential vulnerability or an element of security, is inventoried and assess...

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