I am still adjusting firewall rules to minimize the information available to a potential attacker both in terms of choosing targets and determining the effectiveness of an attack.  I am having some problems trying to sort out why only allowing ssh and icmp through to certain hosts results in a password failure.  I attempting to avoid disrupting legitimate traffic but some experimentation is needed to determine what is going on.

     I had intended to post this to Eskimo North News.  Since it is already posted here I’ll leave it since there will be references from other social media.

     I have since discovered what was causing password failures.  I had neglected to allow DNS packets so Iglulik’s TCP wrappers could not identify the originating host and determined if it was allowed to connect.

     Per the King 5 Website:

     TACOMA, Wash. – A police officer responding to a loud music complaint shot and killed a man after the suspect allegedly grabbed a gun and walked out of the house Sunday.

     That’ll teach him to keep his music down.  I’ve had the police come to my house more than once for having my music up too loud.  So far I haven’t been shot.  So far they haven’t mentioned the man’s race.  I imagine if he turns out to be black we’ll have riots, otherwise it’s okay.  I apologize if I offend someone with that comment but I think any time a life is taken unjustly there ought to be a major uprising regardless of race, but that doesn’t seem to happen.

Today’s Our Daily Bread Bible Verses

    I can identify with Paul in as much as I consider myself a huge sinner but have received God’s mercy and much of what I did was not so much out of unbelief but definitely out of ignorance.  I knew God existed because I had had some experiences in my youth that had no other possible explanation.  The nature of God is what I didn’t know.  When I look back on my life and see how often God was involved in the minutest details even though at the time I was completely unaware, I am amazed that the creator of such a vast and magnificent universe can lovingly care for each individual.

     I know sometimes it doesn’t seem that way.  When I was first taken into Shelton, the Washington State Prison intake facility, they put me in a room maybe 6 feet square that was concrete floors, walls, and no heat, it was about 45ºF, I could clearly see my breath.  They made me strip naked and left me there for about 45 minutes.  I shivered violently, eventually laid down on the floor and curled up in a fetal position and remained that way until they finally threw in an orange pumpkin suit and said put this on.  During this time I honestly thought it likely that I was going to die right then and there.  At the time it was easy to blame God, even though I know now only myself and perhaps other somewhat sadistic prison personnel were to blame.

     When I was in solitary confinement, God made it clear to me I was to blame for the suffering I had caused.  And now, with this experience behind me, I see this pattern repeated all around me, people blaming God for suffering man is solely responsible for.  Only be accepting responsibility can we end this suffering.  As long as we assign blame to something outside of our control, we can’t possibly make any positive changes, but once we accept responsibility, we are empowered with the ability to make positive changes.

     This picture was taken from Magnolia Bluff, I think this is Bainbridge Island but not 100% sure.

     Here is a mystery location.  If someone can identify this please tell me.  I shot from two locations this evening, one a dead end on Queen Anne hill, the other from Magnolia bluff, but this image obviously has two bodies of water in it, it looks like the Queen Anne setting (the bushes in the foreground), but I can’t figure out what I was looking at here.  Old timers disease setting in.