Category: Explainer
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The Boy That Cried Wolf
First, Mark Smith is a lawyer. I am not. Much of the “inside baseball” I’ve learned from listening to Mark and others like him on YouTube. His analysis of many cases is spot on. Many times his analysis guides mine. I enjoy listening to him. To put it differently, I enjoy him attempting to “make…
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Reading The Docket
Ally came to me the other day upset about the TikTok case. One of her issues was that the AP was reporting that they couldn’t report more because it was “sealed”. I found this to be unusual and went to the source to find out what is going on. What I found was somewhat different.…
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How to Win without Winning
There are places where I feel sorry for The People. People in California seem to have gotten what they wanted. The people of Illinois, not so much. The lower court of the State recently issued an order in favor of The People, but not of the Second Amendment. This was a win. The people of…
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How good is your ability to read tea leaves? Watching SCOTUS
John of www.GunsSaveLife.com was kind enough to post a link back to us and to quote The Game is On! SCOTUS update He expressed a bit of skepticism. John is skeptical because nobody knows what is going to happen in Supreme Court conferences. It is all “reading the tea leaves”. The black box which is…
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The Guessing Game. Guessing Passwords
My wife read my article on passwords and “got it”. Which is nice. I was attempting to explain how password crackers use rule sets to modify input dictionaries to create more guesses from a single word list. I decided to see how much things have advanced. To say I was shocked would be an understatement.…
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Two Factor Authentication
What we are talking about is “authentication.” Authentication is the method of confirming that you are who you say you are. There are three methods to determine authentication: Something only you know Something only you have Something unique about you In the old days, when people carried checkbooks with them and wrote checks for things,…
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Password Security/Password Managers
Password Security There are four ways of cracking a password. Guess the password Brute Force the password Go around the password authentication Trick the password from the owner If your password is easy to guess, then it is a weak password. Examples of weak passwords are: password, 1234, YOUR_NAME, BIRTHDAYS. Many things use a four…
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Daniel Penny Is Abused By NYC, Again
In general, people are idiots. In groups, they have a combined IQ of less than 70 and the common sense of a three year old. Daniel Penny is a US Marine who stepped up and protected the people on the subway. He held a homeless, violent, man until the man could be arrested. He was…
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Convicted Felon
I wish this were easy. It isn’t. At issue is the number of people claiming that Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Like most things legal, the answer is never simple. The reason is that many laws have internal definitions that do not match the definitions in other parts of the law. And there is…
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Something SIGnificant
Monday, I had an opportunity to visit the SIG Academy/SIG Experience Center. In the late 70s, I had a chance to visit NYC for the first time. That feeling of awe, looking up at the skyscrapers. Trying hard not to have pidgin droppings fall into our open mouths. That is sort of how I felt…