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I was spreading “misinformation” today

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I told people that the “Cricket” (the bolt action single shot 22 LR) cost about $300 new. Turns out I was remembering the MSRP for a brand new “Cricket” with a scope. A base model with no scope (such as was being fired today) has an MSRP of $169. Real world price seems to be $159.

The below video shows what one of the modern options looks like (you can have all kinds of stocks and other options). The one in below video has different sights then one we were using today. I don’t know if you can still get the old style sights.

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

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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

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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

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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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