Firewalls and Airgaps and Why Not To Confuse The Two
“Failures accumulated in individual control components or entire systems,†the report notes. As a result, the plant was “unable to shut down a blast furnace in a regulated manner†which resulted in “massive damage to the system.â€ï»¿
The attack marks only the second confirmed incident in which a wholly digital hack created physical destruction of equipment.
Peer PressureÂ
I figured out a way to get a stalled project off and running again…make a public declaration amid peers on a live stream. Yep. Thanks to +Adafruit Industries  for giving me the needed platform to call myself out.Â
What project? Well in part it is one I started back in May of last year (egged on by the Illuminati like guidance of +Trevor Blake ) and in part it is in response to something +phillip torrone  talked about a few weeks ago, that being the gear and tech that we used early on that started us on the path to here and now.Â
The tl/dr of it is….a portable box you can have on you that is a local content wifi/bluetooth connectable network plus a multi broadcast transmitter (am/fm/etc) .
Use cases? Â
-Gatherings where you need to disseminate info, files, orders, up to date reports. Not just things like Occupy but things like Gamer Get Together, Â Book Clubs, Gorilla Drive In Theaters, etc etc etc.Â
-Places and situations where communications are restricted (schools, open spaces, censor happy governments).
-Local Home Nets to store books, movies, music, etc and also a nice home broadcast setup to make  your own radio station (kids love doing this..as do many adults)
So the last May part is a project called Anyfesto, of which I started a website for (http://www.anyfesto.com/)  and even a github for the code I was monkeying with (https://github.com/tomhiggins/anyfesto) . The code part is most likely goingto be scrapped as it was a failed attempt at recrafting the #piratebox  project into something more to my needs. Thing is the new #librarybox  2.0 code base gets me closer to what I want out of the box. PiFM was a big part of it (http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter ) but even that is quickly being replaced in my plans with and FM transmitter module by Adafruit (http://www.adafruit.com/product/1958). I may use both, time will tell.Â
The old gear part is going to be the hellafun part of this for me. I am going to make an AM transmitter out of an old Radio Shack 200-in-One kit and drive it  from a Raspbery Pi. I am also going to toy with using the GPIO of a PI to drive the blinkys on another 50-In-One kit I have, because….Blinky Lights.Â
So next week on the Show-And-Tell…if I get enough done and if I get in on the Hangout… I will have RPI Â running PIFM and driving a 200-In-One based AM transmitter . My real goal here is working out a simple to use gui so that users on the local network can control what is being transmitted.Â
So yeah. simple steps and public accountability…I just might get this done yet. 
Chickesque
I loves me the Chick Tracts, not only do I have a nice collection of them but a bang up book on the topic. This then seems to me a sure fire hit. More like this…for the kids. 
I made a comic about superheroes and the true fate of the dinosaurs… now I want to give it away to strangers.
Onion – 2014 The Year Summation
A really good  talk that hits both tech and non tech issues around tor, anon and privacy uses. 
State of the Onion Neuland The current state of the Tor network and community, covering important up
Why, Not Always Wishful Thinking
Along the same lines of Why Public Schools were formed is this bit of ascii. "This liberal way of viewing the problem rests on a misunderstanding of the origins of the police and what they were created to do. The police were not created to protect and serve the population. They were not created to stop crime, at least not as most people understand it. And they were certainly not created to promote justice. They were created to protect the new form of wage-labor capitalism that emerged in the mid to late nineteenth century from the threat posed by that system’s offspring, the working class."
Before the nineteenth century, there were no police forces that we would recognize as such anywhere in the world. In the Northern United States, there was a system of elected constables and sheriff…
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