Last week we kicked off a four-part series on Data Leaks with a lead article about vehicular data leaks. In today’s article, we’ll be diving into the realm of free WiFi.
This series is designed to look at how ordinary things we take for granted encroach on our perception of privacy. This series isn’t about ridiculously risky, yet highly popular, opt-in social networks—like blippy, a web site that divulges recent shopping details via sharing credit-card bills among friends.
If any member of this site participates in blippy.com, stay put—the black rendition van is on its way to your location at this very moment to knock some sense into you.
Instead, the Data Leaks series focuses on unexpected data leaks; ways you might be leaking the personally identifiable information that data thieves profit from. This week’s article leaves the car in the garage and focuses on the coffee joint around the corner where you login to pay your bills each month. [Read More…]
If you remember a few months back, I wrote an article about Dealing with Violent Confrontations, which mentioned a new Ballistic Striking DVD Series that I was asked to participate in.
That DVD series has now been officially released and I’d encourage everyone to check it out. My recommendation has nothing to do with you seeing me get my ass handed to me by Val Riazanov in the Dealing with Armed Opponents DVD and everything to do with how effective his techniques are.
Whether you’re well versed in Systema, or you know absolutely nothing about it, you won’t be disappointed in the quality and effectiveness of Val’s teaching. He has a unique way of breaking down each movement into instruction that everyone can understand.
If you haven’t read it yet, take a few minutes to peruse the Dealing with Violent Confrontations article, and send in any questions you might have for Val, we’re still taking them.
I had a great time learning from Val during the filming of this DVD series and am grateful for the opportunity to work with him.
Dealing with Armed Opponents Vol 4 from Val Riazanov on Vimeo.
We just completed adding some awesomeness to the ITS Tactical Store a few minutes ago and are super excited to be offering our first PVC patch design!
Our friend Mil-Spec Monkey has recently started offering PVC patches and since he’s our mastermind patch designer, we inquired about an ITS PVC design. A lot of you have been asking about a smaller ITS Patch, so here you go, the Mini PVC ITS Patch!
We’re also proud to now be offering what we feel is the very best tourniquet on the market today, the brand new Tactical Medical Solutions 1.5″ SOF Tactical Tourniquet.
The SOFTT-W is the result of an exhaustive 24 month research initiative compiling end-user research and laboratory studies to develop a more effective, easier to use tourniquet for all environments.
Today we’re going to put out some important information about the inherent dangers of automatic garage door openers and how easily they can be bypassed. We hope that everyone takes this information to heart and spends just a few seconds to protect themselves and their property.
So what is the inherent danger? All automatic garage door openers legally require a safety release mechanism that is controlled by a grab handle. This is put into place so that if your automatic garage door opener is malfunctioning or traps someone beneath the door you can manually release and move it. [Read More…]
Today on our Knot of the Week, we’re going to continue our Fast Rope construction with a demonstration of a 4-Strand Eye Splice.
On a previous KOTW we’ve shown how to create a 3-Strand Eye Splice, and while this may appear similar these are two very different techniques.
The Eye Splice is the strongest and safest method of terminating a Fast Rope (4-Strand Round Braid). It develops approximately 85% of the breaking strength of the line, which as we’ve mentioned is right around 28,000+ lbf (pound force) or 129 Kn (kilonewtons) with the 4 pairs of 7/16″ Blue Water Assaultline Static Rope used in construction.
An Eye Splice also enables the rope to be girth hitched onto a beam to climb. Traditionally in Military Fast Ropes, the eye splice is used to attach to the davits found on some helicopters. [Read More…]
We have some very exciting news to share with you guys today! To mark our recent milestone of 2,500 YouTube subscribers, we’ve teamed up with Revision Eyewear to bring you an awesome contest!
What we’re doing for the contest, is asking for a video response to our YouTube video you’ll find below. Of course you’ll need to first be a subscriber to our YouTube Channel, but your subscription and time is going to be well worth your effort.
Revision has generously put together three different prize packages worth more than $330 for us to give away to the best entries in three different categories. Most creative, funniest and most in need. [Read More…]
In my first article here at ITS, Social Networks and Your Digital Identity, the subject was identity theft.
One way to mitigate that risk is to carefully consider your privacy settings at social networking sites. Last week I presented the DefCon/Black Hat roundup, announcing a four-part series that inspects how ordinary things we take for granted encroach on our perception of privacy, much more so than opt-in social networking sites.
Today we’ll get into the first article in the data leaks series, how my car betrays me. [Read More…]
That’s right, we said “winners.” Due to an overwhelming response from all our readers out there, Pimps n’ Mercs has decided to give out two identical prize packages!
Thank you to everyone for your participation, and especially to Pimps n’ Mercs for their support and generosity!
As always, random.org was used to draw the winners for this contest. [Read More…]
Before SHOT Show this year, I decided it was time to invest in a better messenger bag then what I’d been using for the last few years. Unfortunately, while I looked high and low for something being currently produced that fit what I needed and wanted in a bag, I came up empty.
I’ve been a huge fan of what Joel at Zulu Nylon Gear has been doing since I first met him through ITS back when we first started the site. In fact, I think we were the first site to review his Mega Admin Pouch back in the day (which was a Wednesday by the way) and I’ve always liked what he’s done.
While searching for a messenger bag, I noticed his Photobucket account had all the custom bags he’d made and saw a lot of awesome! I contacted him right away and asked if he’d be interested in creating a custom messenger bag for me using many of the features I saw on the bags he’d made, along with a few ideas of my own.
What came out of the project was a bag design that was exactly what I was looking for, an unobtrusive messenger bag that’s capable of fitting into any role needed.
UPDATE: This bag is now branded as the ITS Tactical Discreet Messenger Bag and available exclusively in the ITS Tactical Store!! [Read More…]
Check out our newest sponsor, Lucky Gunner! We’re all stoked to have them aboard and can’t wait to share the new benefits they’ve hooked our members up with!
Lucky Gunner is an online ammo company that prides itself on having great prices and only showing products that are in stock ready to ship to your door that same day or the next business day. They don’t tease you with products that they don’t have in stock and won’t take days or weeks to get it out the door.
We’re also announcing today that we’re going to give all of our sponsors their own boards in our ITS Forum, starting with Lucky Gunner. It will take us a bit of time to get everything online, but you’ll now be able to communicate directly with our sponsors in our growing forum of nearly 2,500 members!
Lucky Gunner will be offering up some great things to come in our Forum, so stay tuned. So what’s the big announcement? [Read More…]
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