It is all fun and games until someone starts doing this for real on American soil

I am surprised that various people with an ax to grind are not already doing this to various high profile targets. All I can think off of the top of my head is one unknown person/group using a drone to attack a power transformer. But with videos like this coming out, how long until more people are doing this for real in various places across the US?

This Makes Hacking TOO Easy – Flipper Zero

Since nobody seems to know what this is, here are a couple of overviews.

Here is the upbeat happy overview that tries (more or less successfuly in my opinion) to damp down the fear hype over the device)…..

Here is a someone doing an overview with real world examples….

Here is a compilation video of people being bad with it.

Here is a more technical video on how to hack Wi-fi passwords with it….

End of the Fire Logs: Fire Logs #12, #13, and #14 plus closing thoughts

When I first started doing these fire logs in the beginning of the year, I said….

“I intend to do one fire a week from the start of January through the end of March. I am not trying to teach myself anything exotic but rather to see how well what I “know” and what I have carries over to fire starting in winter weather. The goal is to try something new either in terms of conditions or in terms of equipment used every week.”

I was reasonably successful in this goal. Once we got into March, I had a harder and harder time finding time to write up the results of what I did, but technically that was not part of the goal. For almost all of the fires, I was able to spin them as some kind of success even if some of them were pretty lame. Only Fire Log #13 was a complete failure.

I had planned for this to end with March in part because I knew I would be getting busier around then. As that is indeed the case (in fact, most of this was written in the first week of April but I am only now finding the time to put it up) I am going to try to do a briefer then normal overview of the fires that I have not already covered to close out this series of experiments.

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Fire Log #10: Boil Water With All Of The Toys

There is a chance that I will be using my Firebox Stove (a bigger version of the Nano that I tried on Fire Log #4) for an extended period of time this spring. But before this test, I had yet to try it out.

Honestly speaking the main reason I decided to try it out for this particular goaround is that I was short on time. So I wanted to try to do something I had not done before that would be done and over with quickly. Since the Firebox Stove has an insert that is just for boiling water, I figured a good drill would be to see how fast it would take me to boil water using all the advantages I could ever reasonable be expected to have when camping sans a gas or alcohol stove. The plan was to have a nice short drill that confirmed how much faster things go when you have all the toys.

But as is usual when I try to go fast, it actually took longer to boil water this time then when I did the hypothermia drill.

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