A fiery horse for the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. The early settlers in the western United States were not the only ones who endured hardship and privation. The small detachments of soldiers who were sent to build and man the garrisons on the far flung reaches of the frontier were often attacked by hostile Indians and bands of outlaws. They endured bitter cold and blazing heat, and although they did their job well, they might not have succeeded in making the West safe without the help of the masked rider of the plains. It was he, more than any other man, who brought law and order to the frontier. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, from out of the past of the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver, the lone ranger rides again. It was midwinter, and a raging blizzard had swept all of the north to strike at the little town of Sterling. The single main street was deserted except for a figure that half ran, and half stumbled toward a house that stood by itself on the edge of town. May heaven, ma, unlock the door. Where'd you come from? What are you doing here? The port? It's a blazer for the port. But you're undue to you. Your uniform, you're not wearing it. You're not on leave, are you? I'm through with the army, ma. Through with it, do you understand? Through with standing guard in the open when it's 30 below. Through with chasing Redskins with nothing but a blast that I don't want to back for your trouble. Yeah. Frozen saddles, frozen feet and hands, orders for men to stay inside where it's warm and safe, just because they've got stripes on their sleeves. I'm done with it, ma. I'm done with it. I'll never go back. Have you lost your mind, son? I'm just getting sensed. That's all. The wind are, ma. Is that horsemen? The snow is blowing, so I can't hardly see. Cavalry. They mustn't see me. Well, I hide. I can't let them find me. Jerry, you can still go back. It isn't too late. Go back. They'd shoot me.  I've got to hide. The kitchen. No, Jerry. Over there. That little room under the stairs I used for a closet. You can lock that. Sure. Sure, this'll do all right. You won't let them know I'm here, ma. Of course not, son. Hurry. Yeah. My son is there. They stopped. They're coming in. Open this door. Adjust the moment. And make it pass. Get in there, man. Search the house on top to bottom. He's here and you've got to find him. Do a looking, ma. I'm here alone. You can't. Sorry to say it, ma, but that ain't the truth. I've seen him running for this place myself. All right, fellas. Hunt him out. He gives you a fight. Drill him. You want my boy? No, no, ma. Don't you take on. We're just doing our duty.  He didn't. He couldn't. He deserted. I don't believe it. When he let out, he took the payroll for the garrison along with him. The payroll? Oh, no. Every last penny of it? $3,000. There's a mistake. There must be. Why, he didn't have... So he is here, eh? No, no. Of course he isn't. I'm just thinking of something else. Yeah? What he most likely figured on was getting here without being seen, grabbing a horse and beating it for the back country to join their mother-outlaws. Jerry's no offload. Oh, shucks, ma. Being his ma, I reckon you can't say no different. But if he didn't plan to join up with Max Daly and their mother-deserters that run off from the fort, then I must see Gondonki. Jerry isn't Max Daly's kind. Both deserters, ain't they? What's the matter with you fellas? Can't you find him? You sure ain't what I looked. How about you? I put him just about everywhere, sergeant. Yeah? I ain't seen nobody open this door here. Ma, what's this door lead to? No, there's nothing in there. Don't, please. Stand away. Let me in there. Please, I swear. It's just a room I store things in. You've searched the house. You know he isn't here. Can't you go? If you really want him, you're just wasting time. He's maybe... Out of the way. So he ain't inside, eh? He isn't. I tell you he ain't here. Sergeant, I got a way to find out whether she's lying or not. Huh? Watch.  I'll have your hide. But I was only trying to... I'll see if he's inside. It's locked. You got the key, ma'am? No.  Smash that door in. I'll report you all of you. You can't do this. You've been mighty brave, ma'am. There ain't no use of pretending anymore. Your boys in there all right.  But don't harm him. He don't mean to do anything.  Now we'll see. What the... He's gone. Gone. That window. It's open. He opened it and climbed out while we were searching through the rest of the house. Blastin' luck.  Just take a look outside. Sergeant, the snow has covered his prints already. We'll turn back to our cave soon, sir. There's not much use going further today. It's getting dark soon. Yes. The storm is helping Max and his gang. Any tracks they might leave would be covered up five minutes after they were made. It'd be bad enough without the storm. This country's nothing but wasteland, gullies, the royals, caves, hills, mile after mile of rocks. There's a thousand places to hide and a thousand ways to reach them without being seen. Maybe we not find out. We all give up. We'll try again tomorrow. Those men who deserted must be found and punished. They aren't. Others will follow their example. Just like that young fellow who deserted two days ago.  I can't understand that case, Tunnel. Terry Crane had a good army record. He was liked by the men and his superiors. He'd been decorated twice. He was in line for promotion, they say. Maybe him, him, him still has. Him may be easy. Yes. I'm afraid temptation proved too much for him. Now a good soldier has become another one of Max Daley's outlaws. That man has to be found, Tunnel. And we try to find him. We'd better turn back now. I see. And try to remember how far we came today and start from here tomorrow. They're a big stone by tree. Yes. When you use that for a landmark, then... Tunnel, over there in the snow. Isn't that a man? That man all right. He's half-buried under that drift. He must be freezing. Come on, get him up, Tunnel. Perhaps he's dead already. Oh, Tunnel. Give me a hand with him, Tunnel. I'll dig the snow away from him. Him not dead. Tunnel, hear heart. Good. Tunnel, he's just a young fellow. I wonder, the description of Jerry Crane. This must be him. He was reported that he got away from his mother's home two days ago. Must have got this far on foot. It seems almost impossible in a blizzard like this. Him not bad, bros. He isn't. Let me fix him here. He's reviving, Tunnel. Jerry, can you hear me? Wake up, Jerry. Go away. Come, Tunnel. Help me lift him. We'll get him back to camp. Cross, Silver, Saddle, Tunnel. Stay the old fellow. Let me see. We'll take care of you, Jerry. Ready, Tunnel? Me ready. The lone ranger and his faithful Indian companion, Tunnel, made camp in a cave that sheltered them from the fury of the storm. There, they revived, Jerry. When he'd recovered enough to join them at their campfire, they listened to his story. Maybe you're right, stranger.  You were, Jerry. There's no use dodging the truth. Maybe I'm just yeller. Maybe I ain't got the backbone a real man needs, I don't know. Anyhow, seeing the chance to get clear with all that cash and away from the army with the work and the dangerous day after day, well, I just lost my head. Then you did steal the army payroll. Yeah. But when your mother was questioned by Captain Boyd, she claimed she couldn't possibly have had that money on you when she saw you. I know you haven't got it now. I don't want it now. I don't ever want to see it again. You've got to believe that, stranger. I do believe you. It's too late to fix things up.  Just about the lowest thing ever walked on two legs, I reckon. You were false to your oath. Uh-huh. And you betrayed a trust. I don't need to be told. Well, I still think there's good material in you, Jerry. You've got a fine mother.  You really think that? That's what I want to believe. You, a masked man, having faith in me. And after what I'd done. It isn't entirely faith, Jerry. I believe that when a man is thrown away, all his honesty and manhood, he should be punished. But sometimes a man can make a mistake. Even a mistake as bad as yours will still become a good citizen if he's willing to pay the price. I-I think I see what you mean, stranger.  And in another year, you wouldn't be worth saving. But now, there's still time to turn back. Friend, I'll do it. I'll get that cash and give myself up. I'll face the music. And risk the firing squad? I was forgetting it. I know. But I think you're sincere. And I think there's another way to return. A way that you can go back with honor. There is? It'll mean danger, of course. What is it? What can I do? And hardships as well. I don't care. Just tell me what to do, friend. Anything. It don't matter. Then listen to me, Jerry. After I told you my plan, you may not like it. But it's the only thing you can do to pay for what you've already done. What do you think of it? I'm not afraid. Then you agree? It's my chance, stranger. And it's you that's given it to me. I'd be even worse in what I am if I turned it down. And there's another thing. Yes? I just want you to know one thing. No matter what happens. No matter if I don't turn out to be the kind of man you think me. Well, I won't never forget what you've done. Now, I think it's time we turned in and got some sleep, Jerry. All of us need rest. Uh-huh. And first thing in the morning... Over here! Look at the fire! The soldiers that are looking for me. Them see fire. Quick, we've got to get out. They'll trap us in here. But what do we do? They're bound to... To the horses! Son of... We'll have to let Jerry take scout. You and I'll ride silver. I should ride the paint horse? You've got to have a horse, Jerry. Here's your scout. But what do we do? This will spoil our plans, Jerry. It only means that you better start it once instead of tomorrow. The sooner the better. And scout, Lord, run those horses. Help, will you tell me? I'll not forget what you told me, stranger. We'll separate here. But follow my instructions exactly. Halt! Get out of the way! Shoot him down! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get out of the way, motherfellows! Look at that! At last that we can't catch him. Oh, there! Oh, oh, oh! Sergeant, I'd say there wasn't a horse in the whole troop that could travel like them. They just seemed to fly like they had wings. I'd give a heap to know who their motherfellows was. Maybe the mass-puller was Max's cell, but the one looked like a red skin. Yeah, that's what I thought. The polecats? Well, anyhow, we know they're still hanging around this part of the country. And by thunder we'll get the hull game. All right, men. Head your horses around. We'll go back to the fort and report this to the captain. Get up there!  The curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Jerry Crane, having stolen the Army payroll and deserted, was saved from freezing to death by the Lone Ranger. Just as Jerry had agreed to make amends for his crime, the masked man's camp was discovered by troopers. The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Jerry were forced to leave. As our story continues, we see Mrs. Crane, Jerry's mother, in Captain Boyd's office at the fort. Captain, I have some money. It ain't much, but it's what my husband left me when he died. You can have it all, every penny of it. Maybe that'll help make up for what Jerry done. This has been hard on you, Mrs. Crane. I had such plans for Jerry. His part was a soldier, too, for a time, you know. Soldiers seemed to be in Jerry's blood. But now... I couldn't take your money, Mrs. Crane. I thought, well, I reckon I figured that if I could pay for what Jerry took, then you wouldn't be so hard on him, maybe. I have no choice. Your son was a soldier, ma'am. He'll have to pay the penalty expected of any other soldier who forgets his duty. Please. Dissertion in time of peace would have been bad enough. You're not at war. It amounts to the same thing, ma'am. There's always the Indians and Max Daly. Max Daly? He's the cause of my boy, Desserton. Your son is the seventh man to Desserton join Max. I suppose you know Max Daly was once a corporal here. Yes, I knew. He was discovered stealing from the other troopers. He was confined to the guardhouse, pending his trial and punishment. Over the help of several of his worthless friends, he escaped. I just can't bring myself to think that Jays have anything to do with a man like that. But there can be little doubt that was your son's plan. What else could he do? He's captured be almost certain if he tried to escape this part of the country. His safest bet would be to join Max in the back country where they hide out. He doesn't know where Max is. Perhaps not. But there's no question that Max has heard of him by this time. If Jerry can't find him, he'll find Jerry. My son. For your own good, ma'am. I'd suggest you forget him. Who's there? Sergeant Frank reporting, sir. Come in. Yes? I beg to report we found Private Dean, sir. You have him? Well, uh, not exactly that, sir. Don't stand there stuttering. We found him, sir, but he got away. Got away? The masked fellow in red skin was with him. I reckon we'd got him if that meant for them. You blundering fools. Yes, sir. Have him in your hands and lose him. We should reduce you to the ranks. Who was the man with the mask? Max Daly? We couldn't rightly tell, sir. He was getting mighty dark. I couldn't rightly tell. Look here. Can you understand an order? Uh... Can you? Of course, sir. Then remember this. First thing in the morning, you're taking the men and searching the country around here from one end to the other. And the first masked man you see, shoot him on sight. Have you got that straight? Yes, sir. Then get out. Let a deserter get away from you. Sergeant, get out before I lose my temper. We don't find a place to get out of this storm before long enough. I'll be freezing all over again. I ain't never been so cold. Sure, fella. I'll bet you're plenty cold yourself.  There's caves there plenty here about. I'm bored of this game. Stop right where you are. What the... Who's that? That's full of rememberings, Jerry. Whoa, Scott. Whoa. Give you the prize, didn't I? Whoa, there. Max Daly? Uh-huh. Just thought I'd sort of give you a welcome. Huh? As a matter of fact, Jerry, I've been following along behind you for quite a spell. Following me? But how... You actually don't suppose them soldiers could do all that shooting without somebody hearing it, do you? Oh, so that's how you found me. I've been keeping an eye out. I figured maybe you'd be along this way or four along. You know? About you deserting? Sure, I do. Maybe I do keep hold up here in the hills with the boys, but that don't mean that I don't get to know. I was looking for you, Max. I thought you might. Got tired of taking orders in the Army, didn't you? And jumping every time some fella hollered at you. Didn't you? Sure, I did. There's another little matter, Jerry. Yeah? Told you I heard things about you deserting, for instance, and something else.   What are you doing? Just thought I'd have a look in your saddlebags. That's all. Got any objections? You mean the payroll? Sure, what else? It's there, Max, the whole thing. Well, now, that's just fine. You plan on joining up with me and the boys? I'd sure like to, Max. Can you take orders? I guess you know I'm the boss. Nice, Eddie.  That suits you. Max, you can take this cash and divvy it up right now if you want it. You sure changed a lot since we shared the same barracks, Jerry. You and me didn't used to get along so well together. There's been a lot of water gone under the bridge since then, Max. I reckon it has. And from the way you talk, I got a notion you're going to fit right in with my bunch. Study there, Blastia. Can't we get someplace where it ain't so cold? That's where we're going right now. Back to camp to show the boys our new partner and divvy up that $3,000. Get up there. Get up, scoundrel. Several days went by. The storm cleared up, but still the Lone Ranger and Tonto did not leave their new camp. There's nothing yet, Kimosabe. Not yet. This is the fourth night. We wait plenty long. Too long, Tonto. I'm afraid something's happened to Jerry. We can't wait another night. Maybe Jerry not tell truth. That's the gamble I had to take, Tonto.  But if nothing happens tonight... What we do? Then we'll have to try to find him. That's pretty hard. I may have made a mistake in trusting him, but I couldn't see a man with Jerry's qualities throw himself away without doing something to stop him. But I won't worry, there's still... Wait, Tonto. Huh? Me, she... It's there. Here, Tonto. You ride here as fast as Silver can carry me. You want Tonto gold? No, Tonto. It's a job for one man to do. There's more of a chance for success if Silver doesn't have to carry a bag. Silver doesn't have to carry a double load. But I promise you, Tonto, that you'll be in on the finish. Hi, oh, Silver! Before the gate of the fort, a solitary sentry paced back and forth. Good night. Oh, gone keeping guard, I sure wish I... Don't call out. What? I've a gun pressing against your back. Who are you? Drop your rifle quickly. Now turn around slowly. Don't make any sudden moves. Yeah. I'm going to tell you exactly what to do.  You can't get away with this. Quiet. Open that gate. Open that gate. And take me where your captain sleeps. The captain? Exactly. The gate. Hurry. I'm getting it. Where's the captain's place? Just over there. All right. Walk ahead of me. And remember, shelter, try to run for it, and I'll fire. Get going. I'll be caught, Marshal, for this. You'll get in more trouble if you didn't do it.  Keep on going. This is it. Up the steps. The door unlocked. The captain don't ever lock it, being inside the fort like this. Very well. Who are you? Captain, you've got a visitor. And you're going to listen to what I have to say whether you want to or not. This is Cumberjerry. I ain't seen around camp for the past hour. Well, what's there about that to get excited over? I just don't like it. That's why. I don't care if he did turn over that 3,000 to us. I ain't trust him, even if you do. Yeah? Who said I trusted him? Well, you think they might try to clear out of here, huh? He might. If he was caught by the soldiers, he'd tell about our hideout, sure as thunder. He won't get far by walking. Huh? That's just been horse hobbled over there, ain't it? Well, Joe, the only time he did any riding was when we was on. Oh, I never noticed a horse. I suppose you're right, but even so, we can't... Oh, quit your worrying. He'll be showing up soon. Just about time to turn in anyhow. Oh, there's a horse. Must be Nick coming back. Yeah. Just told him to take a ride around to make sure no soldiers were snooping any ways in here. Don't hurt to be careful. Uh-huh. Hi there, Nick. Hi there. Anything, Nick? Anything, Max? I wrote clear-out Eagle Point. See, what made you change your mind? Change my mind? What are you talking about?  What'd you put it out for? We ain't had no fire. You must be seeing things, Nick. No, I don't care. If you want a fire, that's all right with me. A wild blaze is lie about it. But we didn't have a fire, I tell ya. Are you serious about that? You think I'd build one out here where it's to be seen? And if I did, where's the ashes? Well, I'll be dog-gone. You were just a reamer. Hold on, huh? Maybe Nick wasn't mistaken. Maybe he did see a fire. Have you gone local, too? Local nothing. I'll bet my bottom dollar, Nick's seen just what he said he did. And what's more, I'll bet it was Jerry built the fire, Nick's seen. Come on, let's fire that cold cat. Keep on going, Captain. Come on. Fire from over here somewhere. This skunk built his fire behind these rocks so we wouldn't know about it. I'll kick him to go again, orders. There it is. Just around that corner. You can see the glow of it. Come on. I asked you, Jerry, put out that fire. And hurry up about it. And where you are? Who are you? Threaten me, will you? I warned you. The next will be closer. Put that gun down. That was for you, Nick. And if you rush me, I've got another gun here that's loaded full up. Have you gone crazy, Jerry? What's got into you? If I interfere with me, you'll find out just how crazy I am. Get down behind these rocks and drill them. Yeah, all of you, get down. You better give up, Jerry.  All right, bless you. Let him have it, fellas. He's behind the rock, too. Fire all around him. Not fire. We can't get him away. We'll have to rush him. If we don't, that fire will keep burning, and there's no telling who'll see it. All together then. Are you ready? Come on, will you? If they resist, man, shoot them down. The soldiers. They're all around him. Let's get out of here. We can't stay. It's a mask, fellas. We're covered. We ain't got a chance. I give up. Don't shoot. Oh, don't shoot. Tie them their horses. This time, they're going back to the guardhouse to stay. We ain't the only ones. There's Jerry there. He's the one to throw a payroll. You've got to get him, too. I'll take care of him. Jerry. I've done my best, friend. Now I can take my medicine, I reckon. I'm surrendering, sir. Surrendering? I know I've done wrong, Captain. I'm willing to pay. There must be some mistake. The Masked Man here told me about what you were doing to help us capture Max and his gang. I explained everything, Jerry, but you're getting the money you'd hidden about coming here so that you could show us the way to Max's hideout with a fire. All of it. You did? And Jerry, the Masked Man's persuaded me to give you another check. But everybody knows about me deserting. Suppose you leave that in my hands. The Masked Man suggested that I report you deserted to the payroll as part of a plan to trick Max Daly. You mean... I mean, I think his suggestion is one of the best I ever heard. But there's one thing you'll have to promise me. I'll promise anything, sir. Just promise this.  Sorry, you have just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporating.


Welcome back. The Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja on Tuesday called on electoral offenders to have a rethink during the 2023 general elections because their days were already numbered. The commission also expressed optimism that the spate of electoral offences, irregularities and violence would be brought to a halt after the enactment of the bill on the establishment of electoral offences tribunal. I'm glad to say we have joining us. Annex National Commission and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye S. Choir. Mr. Okoye, thank you very much for joining us tonight. What prompted Annex to make such a statement? Well, you know, the commission has been conversing for the establishment of an electoral offences commission and tribunal to handle the issue of arrest, investigation and prosecution of electoral offenders. Now, if you look at section 145 and 144 of the Electoral Act 2022, you will see that the Independent National Electoral Commission has been giving the power and demanded to prosecute electoral offenders. And the commission prosecutes electoral offenders one, based on report by its officers, two, based on reports and the recommendations by the Nigerian police force and also based on recommendations by election tribunals and calls of law when an election petition is being tried and the judges discover that an offence has been committed. It can be referred to the Independent National Electoral Commission for prosecution. But looking at the whole matter holistically, some of the electoral offenders are staff of the commission and I think it will be impudent and improper for the commission to also be saddled with the responsibility and task of prosecuting its own officers. That is not proper and that is against all the laws of natural justice. So we felt that both at the financial level, at the level of capacity and also at the level of prosecuting electoral offenders properly, that an independent commission should be established to deal with the issue of arrest, investigation and prosecution of electoral offenders in a much more comprehensive and strategic manner. Mr. Coy, you are a lawyer so very, very qualified in the best position to give us explanation regarding this. So with enactment of this law, of this bill, establishing rather an electoral offenses tribunal, how will this be different from what we've been having in the past? Well, I was a member of the electoral reform committee headed by the Honorable Justice who was former Chief Justice of Nigeria and in that particular Electoral Offences Commission, Professor Jega, who later became the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, was a member. The Catholic Bishop of Sokotodiasis, Bishop Maetru Hasankuka, was a member of that particular commission and Electoral Committee and there were other eminent Nigerians who were members of the committee. We did recommend for the establishment of this particular commission and we also provided a framework for its establishment. I was also a member of the 2014 National Conference and the committee on political parties and electoral matters, jointly headed by the former Senate President and the two former Senate Presidents, Senator Iyochia Ayo and Ken Nnamani, also recommended that we should have the political parties and Electoral Offences Commission and tribunal to deal with some of these issues. So what we are saying is that we need a commission modelled after the ICPC or modelled after the EFCC to be completely independent and check the Virginia Act of electoral impunity in the country and we recommended the framework for the appointment of such members of that committee. We recommended the membership of that particular committee and also we recommended on the ways and means to which issue function. Unfortunately, our report was not acted upon but the appeal that has gone to the National Assembly with the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has addressed substantially some of these issues. So we have made it very clear as a commission that one, we want to concentrate on organizing, undertaking and supervising elections that a separate agency should be saddled with the issue of electoral offences and electoral offenders and you realise that during elections there are some electoral offences that are committed on the spot. So we need a commission that has the capacity to activate a mobile court to deal with electoral offences that are committed on election day because on election day what we find out is that some of the police officers and some of the secret officers that carry out this arrest come from different states of the Federation and after the election they move back to their states. So when an electoral offence is committed it becomes very difficult to get them back to the state where they serve for them to give evidence. We lose evidence, we lose critical evidence and also we lose all the ingredients necessary to secure a prosecution. So we need a separate agency to deal with this issue. Okay. I know that in the past, Anek and you in particular, you've lamented how Anek is overwhelmed at times with the volume of litigation and volume of cases that the commission has to deal with and sometimes you wonder how the commission, I need a federal government, you know, is able to spend amounts of money in handling these cases. So you're saying that it is not just enough to enact or to pass this bill on the establishment of electoral offences tribunal. You're saying that an agency must be also set up as a vehicle to be able to implement the law is what you're saying and not Anek doing this because you have your hands full. Is what you're saying sir? Exactly. That is the point. Now if you look at the configuration of the commission, if you look at the things the commission does, we deal with what I call pre-election litigation. These are matters that arise on a civil matter before the conduct of elections. After elections, we also deal with post-election litigation. These are matters that go before the various election tribunals. Our legal officers are involved in some of these things and when we cannot cope, we assign some of them to external solicitors to handle. Now there's also the issue of electoral offences. So what we are saying is, yes, under section 144 and section 145 of the electoral act 2022, we've been giving the power to prosecute electoral offenders, but set up a completely different agency. That agency will recruit the requisite staff with the requisite S parties to deal with the issue of electoral offenders. That commission will also be saddled with the issue of investigation, with the issue of research. They will also be saddled with the task of prosecuting electoral offenders and that this is the only way we can break the cycle of electoral impunity in the country. And if this is gone, I believe that some of those who believe that they can commit electoral offences with some level of impunity and nothing will be done, we have everything. But I like has a legal department, Mr. Fesos-Coye, we have a litigation in the prosecution department that should be able to handle things like this. Do we need to set up another agency in an era where we have scarce resources as far as government is concerned and people have said we need to prune down the size of government? Now, it is this issue of pruning down that led the 2014 National Conference into saying, okay, rather than saddle this agency with the task of only prosecuting electoral offenders, let us add an additional responsibility to them in terms of registration and regulation of political parties so that they will have something doing all year long. Now, one thing we must realize is that our elections in Nigeria have been completely deregulated. They have been completely staggered. During the 2020 regional election, we are only going to have a government election in 28 states of the federation. In the rest of the states, we are going to have a staggered election at different times. As you are aware, in June this year, we are going to have a government election. In July, we are going to have the Russian government election. So our elections have been staggered. So this particular Electoral Offences Commission, we have something doing all year round. We have a litigation and prosecution department. This litigation and prosecution department also handle election matters. And I want to tell you that even before the commencement of party primaries, we have over 200 matters already in court being handled by most of our legal officers in our legal department. And then the moment you are done with party primaries, the cases will become higher. They have to be saddled with it. And then as we move towards the election and the election, election petition tributaries will begin to sit and people will begin to find matters. These same people in the litigation and prosecution department will be the ones that we handle some of these matters. So what we are saying is why not allow us to specialize? Why not allow us to take the quantum of cases we can handle, take the issue of prosecution of Electoral Offenders and give to a different agency, a different commission to handle? Because some of the Electoral offenders are definitely going to be our staff. So why do you expect us to prosecute members of the public? Prosecute political party agents to engage in Electoral my business and also prosecute our own staff who are also engaged in Electoral my practices. So give it to a different agency. Yes, I acknowledge the fact that we have scarce resources in the country, but this agency is also very, very key because it will help in sanitizing our electoral process and also send a very strong signal and a very strong message to those who commit Electoral offenses and get away with it, that Electoral impunity does not pay and that we must find ways and means of breaking the cycle of Electoral impunity in the country. All right. For now, this commission has not been set up. It is an idea that has been put forward by INIC and by stakeholders. Will this be implemented with the 2023 general elections? If yes, do you foresee this bringing down the level of Electoral offenses in the country? Well, as a commission, we plan and plan well. As a commission, we strategically engage some of the issues that we have been saddled with. So if we do not have an Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal before the conduct of the 2023 election, our legal prosecution and prosecution department, we still handle issues around Electoral Offences. And as of today, we are farming up guidelines and procedures for the prosecution of Electoral offenders and how Electoral Offences and their prosecution should be initiated within the level of the commission and who we have responsibility for handling some of these matters. And so we are taking it on board. As far as we are concerned, there is no Electoral Offences Commission Act in place. And since there is none in place, under section 145 and section 144 of the Electoral Act 2022, we will be giving that particular responsibility and we are going to proceed with that particular responsibility. But as you know, when the different agencies involved in arrests, different agencies involved in investigation, the only thing we get at the end of the day will be a report, for instance, from the police relating to the arrests they have made, relating to the investigations they have made. And then we will not go to court to prosecute. Sometimes getting witnesses and getting evidence becomes a problem. So you hear matters being struck out on the basis of lack of religion prosecution or on the basis of the fact that we can get the requisite evidence that will lead to successful prosecution. So we want a situation where somebody will be arrested properly, comprehensively and adequately investigated and also prosecuted very professionally and with some level of best parties. Yes, but Mr Koei, whilst that is not done, and of course you've rightly said the commission is not folding its hands and you've already been proactive. But do you foresee the level of electoral practices based on the enactment of this bill going down? If this bill is enacted and politicians, political talks, the sponsors of political talk rate, those engaging in electoral malfeasance, our staff who may like to connive or collude with politicians, we have everything if we have this particular commission in place. But if we don't have this particular commission in place, they will see think that it is business as usual and that at the end of the day, they can get away with whatever they are doing on the basis of the fact that the commission will be saddled with the task of organizing, undertaking and supervising elections and we will not pay adequate attention to the prosecution of electoral offenders. So I believe that if we have the commission, the level of electoral offenses being committed and the level of electoral offenders, we go down. I think I have that feeling. All right. Indeed, you are also sharing the same sentiments as the former INA commissioner, Tau Jaga, who also has said some things about this calling. I'm sure from his own experience for INA to be allowed to focus on electoral matters during the research and organizing elections. Ms. Soko, before you go, has a chief executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brigadier General Bubamor Marwabin, interacting and cooperating with INEC or has even written to INEC regarding this talk of conducting drug integrity tests on aspirants seeking a contest for political offices come 2023. I guess you may have heard about that news. Well, you know, we have what we call the Interagency Consultative Committee on Election Security and it's made up of the heads of the different security agencies. We also have the heads of ICPC, EFCC, NYC and the other security agencies involved. So there's a possibility that at the next meeting of the Interagency Consultative Committee on Election Security that we take place after the after the salad break, that there's a possibility that such maybe can pass before the Interagency Consultative Committee on Election Security. But you know, the NDLE and all these other agencies are separate agencies and they have their mandate and we will not interfere in relation to their mandate. But we are going to focus on our principal responsibility, which is to organize on the take-off, provide selection. All right. I would have wanted to ask what kinds of drugs you'd be testing for, but I wouldn't bore you with that. I'll leave that question for Bubba Marwab. But if this were to work and aspirants is found to test or test positive for banned substances, this would automatically mean that he or she is out of a race to electoral laws, have anything to cover that? Well, you know that the qualification to contest the election is governed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as a mandate. It has set out the qualifying criteria for people to contest various levels of offices. And it has also set out the disqualifying criteria on which people can be disqualified from contesting elections. So we need to interrogate the provisions of the Constitution to see whether failing a drug test means that a constitutional criteria. But I know that lunatics, certified lunatics are not supposed to be allowed to contest the election. And there are also other disqualifying criteria provided in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But in terms of failing a drug test, I don't know whether it's one of the qualifying criteria or disqualifying criteria. All right. All right. We look forward to that. I can guarantee you that a lot of Nigerians will be looking forward to that. First of all, Koei Esquire, thank you very much for your time. You've delivered ever so eloquently and we appreciate you. Thank you so much for this opportunity. All right. And thank you for staying with us. That's as a size of a package right here on Plus Politics. For today, we return to more from our entire team, reaching you live from our series in Victoria Landegos. My name is Kofi Betelz. See you tomorrow. Good night.


The workshop is very nice. We've learned a lot about it, about financing, collaboration. We package our challenges and I believe when it gets to the government, the center of government will look at it critically because financing such an industry is not an easy thing. So I treat the government to pump money into the industry so that it will function and function well because it is an early industry which has employed over 1 million people, both youth and adults in the industry. So with the help of the government, I think the industry will take up very well.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us understand the following problem today. Fuse that 9 pi by 8 minus 9 by 4 psi inverse 1 by 3 and is equal to 9 by 4 psi inverse 2 by 2 by 3. The formula that we will be using in our problem is x plus is equal to psi inverse x into 1 minus y square plus y into 1 minus x square and psi inverse 1 is equal to pi by 2. This is the key idea that we will be using in our problem. Now, let us write the solution. The given question can be written as 9 by 4 psi inverse by 3 plus psi inverse 1 by 3 is equal to 9 pi by 2. So, we have to prove this. Now, consider LHS which is equal to 9 by 4 into psi inverse of 2 root by root 2 by 3 plus psi inverse of 1 by 3, which is equal to 9 by 4 psi inverse of using the formula we get 2 root 2 by 3 into under root 1 minus 1 by 3 square plus 1 by 3 into under root 1 minus 2 root 2 by 3 the whole square, which is equal to 9 by 4 by 3 into 2 root 2 by 3 plus 1 by 3 into 1 by 3, which is equal to 9 by 4 into psi inverse of 8 plus 1 by 9, which is equal to 9 by 4 psi inverse of 1, which is equal to 9 by 4 into pi by 2 because psi inverse 1 is equal to pi by 2, which is equal to 9 pi by 8, which is equal to RHS, therefore LHS is equal to RHS hence proved. I hope you understood the problem. Bye and have a nice day.


And we are live. Welcome to episode, what number is this again? I should look, it's 230, wow. So awesome. The hot sauce I haven't talked about in a little while, so I thought I'd bring that up first and it's the Tray's Chili, T-R-E-S Chili by Jess Hale's Serendipity. This is actually a pretty cool sauce. Someone sends a whole lot of this and it's really good. So we got sent this from one of our clients.  Focus, there we go. Maybe, close enough. We can zoom in, we have the technology, there we go. You can find this online though, though it's a pretty good hot sauce. We've consumed quite a bit of it. They sent us more than I thought we would consume, but turns out it's really good when we started consuming. It's not particularly hot, but it's good sauce. That's what matters is that it's got good flavor. I didn't put a lot because I've got about 30 minutes before I have to be to the next thing I have to do today. Oh, and I see Eric already commenting in the comments. One of my staff did come and he came and grabbed some. We shared it all amongst the staff. Actually, that's the button I'm looking for or make the chat bigger. So there we go. I'm getting better at all of this handling it, so figuring out how to size things. Actually, this is a weird part is how you size this. I mean, make the chat more readable. All right, there we go. Awesome. All right. But lab things is what I was gonna talk about today is we've been doing some testing and a few people had had questions. And one of those questions was about the TrueNAS core and Miles internally has been doing some testing with TrueNAS core, TrueNAS scale. It looks like it's not a problem so far to import and move your data sets from one side to the other. So that's not a big deal. So definitely that it's gonna be whatever one asks because when TrueNAS scale, I posted a picture on Twitter and right away, even Wendell commented like, he's like, that's exciting that it's coming out. And the next thing is gonna be is what I do with all my data because I don't wanna have to rebuild my data sets or rebuild things or anything like that. And you won't have to. You will be able to pull and import your data from one spot to another. So that's part's great. So I'm excited about that right there. I also have ordered a, the new Unify aggregation 25 gig switch. A few people asked about it and I'm like, I'm just gonna order one to review it because there's a few things I wanted to test with 25 gig, including Synology. I was just on a conference call with them today learning some of the details of some new product offerings they have. So that's kind of cool. Yes, and someone mentioned RAIDZ expansion is coming. We'll see how quick RAIDZ expansion gets here but it may take some time. I'm excited that it's developing but you gotta remember any product rushed too soon when it comes to data integrity would not be well received or well trusted if it did not go well. So I would expect some lots of testing in a slow cycle before we get RAIDZ expansion in ZFS. I think it's coming. I don't think it's getting here fast. That's the best way I could describe that. And I see my son is in here commenting that he would like pizza. Yes, Marcus, I will drop off a pizza on my way. Hey Travis, good to see you in here and upgraded to 10 gig. Yes, and then I'm gonna do some 25 gig videos which just means you're gonna wanna upgrade to 25 gig because 10, 10's last year, no kidding. 10 gig is actually, it's been around a while. It's more recently become affordable. The 25 gig steps the game up in price quite a bit because the challenges, the cards are a lot for the 25 gig. None of them are really all that cheap is best way I could describe it. So because there's a cost prohibitive nature of buying the cards. Now the good news as far as form factor, when they're DAC, direct attached copper, it's the same physical form factor as the SFP and SFP plus. Electrically it's going to be electronically slightly different. So it is gonna be some, it'll be some talking points I have when I do that video. So I can kind of explain for people thinking about going to the 25 gig hookups, how you can achieve that, what you have to do to achieve that. You know, and like I said, it is slowly becoming more affordable. Oh, and the noise of a 25 gig switch. Yeah, that's going to always be a factor if you're trying to do it in a home lab. For us, it's not really an issue because it's not gonna be a lab device. 25 gig, when we put, you know, buy some 25 gig cards and some 25 gig hookups, it's all part of a bigger plan. I need to build another rack and we have more servers than I've kind of running out of room for things. So yeah, that's gonna be on a to-do list as well. To have a separate rack where all that stuff lives. So yeah, you know, just kind of the evolution of things. Yes, ordering the right cards. Yes. That's always a challenge. The other thing I'm working on and I'm messing with is the, and I'll get this pulled up in another window real quick here. Where do I pull that up? Probably over here. The 45 Drives, Houston OS. They've actually done a lot of cool things with it.  I just shut it down. I think it's powered off, is it? There's a soul on, yeah. Oh good, it is powered on, perfect. So I can share the screen with you one second here. Always detail, details, details, 45 Drives. Get logged in and I'll switch screens. There we go. So stop showing here. Oh, how do most PCs handle 25 gigs as of now? They can, it's a matter, it's not really that necessary until you have like an all flash storage array. So it's kind of because perhaps I have some all flash storage arrays that may be showing up that I need to do some testing with is why I need this. But that's usually, it's hard to saturate it until you get something like a really fast storage system. And of course, then you have to have to have a really fast hypervisor, for example, something that's gonna target that storage. So it's kind of a combination of things that you need to make that work. It's not just a matter of getting the 25 gig hookup, it's the 25 gig hookup along with the having the whole, you know, everything you need, all the different pieces. Because once you start up in the game for things to be that fast, everything in between needs to get that fast as well. But this is the 45 drives system. And let me swing the screen over here. There we go. The Houston OS has gotten a lot better. Now, yes, I know it's cockpit, but one of the things is going to be no, certainly not going to peer storage. I'm gonna throw that out there. Peer storage is cool, but not that cool. Not as cool as, you know, the offerings from 45 drives, the offerings from a Synology and offerings from TrueNAS. So I don't really plan on adding peer storage to my list of things right now. Matter of fact, I know a few people that don't care for it as much. One service has failed. Yeah, that happens sometimes. Let me see what service was it. Okay, these drives are online. Anyways, the Houston system is another thing we've been playing with a lot in the lab. I've been working on some new and updated videos and what they've been doing is just a real good list of updates they've got. They now have the, let me show you like the file navigator. This is really cool. So we can go here to mount refresh. I don't have anything mounted there. Wrong one. I gotta mount it here. My bad. So I can actually go inside right in here in the cockpit manager and manage files. I think this is cool to really working on like a lot of neat stuff over there. So I wanted to, I'm gonna probably do a few updated videos because the first video that needs to be done though is why would you use this over something else? And that's gonna be one of the videos that I'll probably have done tomorrow is kind of the use case for why you might want to take a look at the way they're doing it. Because the question comes up all the time is what NAS software should I use or should I roll my own? And that is a fun question and it's not an easy answer, but over ads, and I think I have a bookmarked, pull it up real quick. Do, do, do, do, do. Well, I can do this. Here we go. I'll find the comment on it. There we go. Scroll to the beginning and switch tabs. Share, share screen, Chrome tab. It'll be this one here. This is something over at level one text and there are forums and I can drop a link to this if anyone's interested. But what you have here is the custom use case you run into for something like the 45 drives platform. And, you know, Wendall's going pretty far with what he plans to build. So first thing is a steam cache, LAN cache, he wants to set up on this. So that obviously requires a lot of storage. So he's gonna build that in there. He's gonna load Portainer to manage some of the images and some of the containerization that's gonna be on there. He also has a good write-up here on how to get a few other things working, a few quality of life improvements, you know, including how to configure Samba so it properly does this. And this is something, yes, you can do in TrueNAS, but it's configurable via Samba. So here's how to set that up on here. Then we go a little bit further and it's into this part here. It is the multi-pathing RDMA and he's got some configuration details that Wendall broke down on there as well. So this is where you start getting really those out-of-the-box configurations and where I think the 45 drives platform might be pretty popular because it's just running Ubuntu. There's nothing special about it, but it's Ubuntu with a ZFS manager on top and that ZFS manager, because you can load ZFS on Ubuntu, that's step one, but then how do you manage a lot of drives? ZFS can be managed from the command line, but if you don't do it all the time, you're not as familiar with those commands. So I like that kind of hybrid of offering here's a cool way to manage all your drives and manage some of the tedious functionality that you don't use too often, but then under the hood, you still have full access to the real powerful of running Ubuntu underneath. And cockpit has been one of the web UIs I've recommended to a lot of people because unlike web men, it's very much in line with the way you use Linux. And what I mean by that is it doesn't create any weird config files. It's reading from all the normal config files, not trying to create a separate instance of them or a special way for doing it. So everything you do is kind of all one and the same, whether you adjust something inside of cockpit or you adjust it from the command line, you're not breaking anything. It's all just reading it all in real time. There's not a way I can recommend a number of NAS drives for a MSP business. It's all based on how much storage you need. So I get the question, but you're kind of coming at it from the wrong angle. How much storage do you need? How much storage do they have? So you see, you have 500 gigs of data, but I wanna get that data off to your local systems. Same thing, you okay, 500 gigs. You need at least 500 gigs, but you also probably should keep revisions of it. So how many revisions do you need to keep? So you're gonna need several terabytes to keep revisions of it. And storing it locally, that's kind of a challenge because you become a single point of failure. So you may wanna look at a cloud solution as well as storing the data yourself. So that's definitely something to consider. Corey Thompson, 26 wedding anniversary, often awesome, 26 years, congratulations. That is great. Always good to see, people making it the long haul there. Smash the like button too. So that definitely a thing. And I do see that Kyle dropped a link to the Synology and that's actually a pretty good one there is the Synology RAID calculator. This is definitely something to take a look at is the Synology platform is really nice even from the MSP standpoint. And trust me, Synology has all kinds of new cool stuff that's coming out. So if you jump on their platform, we highly recommend it. We use a lot of Synology in the MSP space and consulting space, especially for people that are looking for having a lot of their data local not everything needs to go in the cloud. Synology and their C2 backup system, I've done reviews of them are a pretty solid system. So two, three, one revision is fine. I do have it in the cloud, but it mirrors from a separate partition. Yeah, build yourself a RAID system.  It kind of depends. There's different, this is one of the reasons we don't offer a single product line because not every product line fits every scenario. And this is why we have so many things going in the lab, so many things in testing. So at one, we can help people and consult with them ideas and knowing a diverse amount of products out there such as Synology, such as 45 drives or such as the IX systems, TrueNAS line is kind of a, you know, part of the fun way to do it. I gotta admit though, it's fun playing with the Synology RAID. I like their, I like the way this works. It's just kind of cool. RAID calculator, put RAID 10, RAID F1. What's F1? Fnet. Either way, kind of cool. Look at all these drives. Take them out, watch the RAID shrink. These, these just get, I want to be able to press the power button and make it do something, but nonetheless, RAID calculator, the more challenging part is going to be the NAS calculator when it comes to all these drives. So yeah, like Kyle says, even if you don't use the Synology is a great calculator, I'll figure out check RAID sizes for sure. Cause the other one is obviously like using the ZFS calculator that there's, you have to calculate based on the number of drives, type of RAID, what amount of parity, there's a lot of factors that go into it. Lots to think about. I do, the selection tool they have here is pretty cool though. The level one text form. Anyways, I'll drop a link real quick to the level one text form. I think I can drop it here. Anyone's interested in looking at what Wendell's doing on his write up on here and some of his enhancements.  You don't have to have a 45 drive server for any of this. But something we've been playing with in the lab. Oh, what else we hear? Oh, RAID F is for SSD, we're lovely. Okay, interesting, lots to play with.  Actually, one of the things I like is Wendell in his review. I like that he gets into the details when he was covering the 45 drive server. He found kind of an interesting way the backplane was connected. So he kind of broke down this right here. And yes, I like when you're breaking down block diagrams of how they did the interconnects. So yeah, fun stuff. I also, a lot of people have asked me about this and I haven't really done much with it, configuring containers, supporting Podman. Podman looks pretty cool. And there's another YouTuber who does a lot of good videos on it. I've talked to him before. And so it's something else. I think it's kind of a cool idea. And of course, this kind of swings back around to talking about true NAS scale and the fact that it'll be able to run Docker containers and everything else is gonna get, once you kind of move over to the Linux world from the BSD world, there's a lot of handy stuff that starts showing up in there. All right, back to the, whoops, video for, no, I wanna share the screen tab. There we go. All right, back on this. Now I'm still working on it. I've been behind because so many things kind of happened at once. I took some time off. I took actually a few days and just went out of town and you follow me on Twitter. I'll randomly post there and things like that. So it's taking a while for me to catch up with everything. So I haven't done as many videos. And yeah, kind of sorry about that. Cause I know I wanted to get a couple of videos out today and that kind of just didn't happen. That in between the consulting bookings and things like that. But I am still actively working on showing off our lab and how that's wired. I wonder if I have an updated drawing or how far off this one is. Open existing. Oh, I don't have the updated lab. Oh, I got this one. Let me see if this one's worth sharing. A little bit. Getting closer. So I'll share a screen on this one here. Actually, I got to close that, that I was running Windows XP before I opened this. I'm closing my Windows XP machines. I still, I won't lie. I'm still using Windows XP because of the fact that it's how we print our checks here. There we go. I'll share this. This is the lab drawing that I have to update a little bit of how everything is and how the containers work and everything else will connect containers with the virtual machines and how we work the VLAN some on there. And of course I got to add the 25 gig switch that'll be here soon. That'll be in this mix as well. Other cool things I like is the fact that the draw.io now supports animations. So I can choose animation as a type in the properties. That's gonna be under their property value and you just choose flow animation. So we'll do it here and you can create flow animations for each one of the different connectors in here. That's gonna be kind of a fun. I thought about making when I do my updated drawings for all this, I'll put some flow animations in there because it just, it makes it look kind of neat how the data is going. Kind of related to this though is gonna be some more VLAN videos because I wanna do more explanation for ways you can use VLANs for your lab because that's the one of the really interesting use cases that sometimes confuses people is how we have these specific VLANs and like the ones that are for our lab, they're called Studio VLAN 100 and 200. What they allowed me to do is create a virtual machine here and bring a port out anywhere we want in our studio, for example, and route back and forth. So I can take a firewall externally like a physical one I'm doing testing with plug it into a port and then create a VLAN where some virtual machines live behind it or just create that VLAN to manage the other systems that are in between. Who uses checks anymore? That's actually funny. I wish I didn't, but it is still the easiest way to pay a lot of things here in America. So yeah, for all the bills and online pay and things like that, that's fine. But for paying vendors, it's still easier than paying with ACH. So there's that. Keep an XPVM working, those old Java based R Lilo system. Yeah, I know that too.  And it was just like, yeah, the check rating software I'm using is VersaCheck. And I took my Windows XP and I cloned it into a virtual machine, specifically virtual box back in, I don't know, 2007, maybe, who knows, long time ago and maybe before then. Anyways, it's been there ever since. And so I just fired up what I need to. The drawing program I'm using is draw.io or diagrams.net. So draw.io and diagrams.net is the same thing. I have a whole review on it. It's a great drawing program. I use it for quite a few things. I have, like I just did this video in here with Sync Thing, I did it with this. I mean, it's just really simple for setting these up. Oh, you know, it's kind of funny. I messaged on Twitter, Steve Gibson, because I know he's a Sync Thing user, so I had messaged that this existed. And he mentioned it in his thing, but he says, oh, and someone sent me this. And it's all he said. He didn't say my name. I was like, oh, fun to get a shout out on security now. So such as life. Draw.io works cross-platform. I think that's what you're asking. Are Pyhole is still enabled for new PF Sense install? I'm not sure, because I don't really use Pyhole, but PF Blocker, when you set up PF Blocker, as far as I know, it still supports the same feeds. I could be wrong, because I don't use Pyhole, but there's plenty of ad blocking feeds that are used within a PF Blocker that should be completely compatible the other way around. I see people saying, can you go on library? The answer is no. I have a post on my, look for talking about library. There's a post on my form about it, where I explain why I don't waste my time with it. You know, I guess I do have a question. A few people did ask this, and I don't know if this is something I'll, Jay started doing it, and we're trying to decide if it's something I want to do as well. Jay from LearnLinux TV. It's offering a, if you want an ad-free version, because you don't want to watch it on YouTube, then you can pay us through Patreon, and we can upload them to Vimeo. This is not something we're doing right now, but it's something Jay started doing, and I thought about doing it as well. So I thought it might be kind of a neat thing, but it, you know, I'm not trying, it costs money for you to put them on Vimeo as part of how that works. It takes time to put them on other platforms, so you gotta still figure out ways to pay for all the time it takes and the tech investment for doing all these things. I don't know if there's a big interest in that or not. I'm just throwing it out there. If there was cool, it's not hard to do, but it's one of those things that I'm not really sure if there's enough people interested in there, so. I mean, I don't have a problem. Jay's getting more people that view it. The other option is, of course, you know, where you put special content out there, but I kind of don't like trying to hide all my content between a paywall. I don't know. Trying to figure out the path forward on that is always, you know, tricky to do. I get some people don't want to deal with YouTube. That's fine. You don't want to deal with ads on YouTube, and you don't want to buy a subscription to YouTube. You don't want to give the big bag Google company money, and that's fine. But, you know, the exchange that Google's offered, allowing creators and people tolerating some ads or giving some money to avoid the ads has become a pretty good way to get a lot of information, which is why YouTube's so popular. The other platforms, and as someone pointed out, because they're based on cryptocurrency, and I've pointed out a few times, this is where I have a whole right up in my forums, even some of the bigger YouTubers that have tried putting their content over there, they don't get any views. They get very little engagement on there, and these are channels with like 5 million subscribers that can't get 1,000 views on Odyssey. It's just, you know, trying to monetize any of that, and the trouble it takes to upload all that, it's like, look, you know, we want to get paid for your content at some point, and they don't make it easy. Oh yeah, thank you, Eric. Eric posted that in the chat. So now the forum link, it says, will you join Odyssey? Is the forum? Yes, that's that forum post right there. I break it all down, and so I don't have to repeat myself. I send people that link quite a bit. That's only a lot of times my goals. Sometimes when I do a video, is I don't have to repeat myself, but I've had it in a forum post for a little while. We aren't giving anything away today. I forgot to mention that. We did pick a winner. I have to email that person because we picked the winner today for the other, for giving me an assist go. We got to figure out what else I want to give away.  Shipping on some of these are kind of like, you know, 40, 50 bucks. So what's your magic for upgrading firmwares and all your PF cents without using central management? Log in and upgrade them. It's not hard to do. Just by, you can upgrade them from the command line, SSH into them, or just use the web interface. It's not that big of a deal. There's not that many updates. There's a few updates, three or four updates a year. So it's not, and it's not that hard. I think people make a bigger deal about it, but it is what it is. So I guess that's the question is would people pay for the shipping? That would probably be a way, I feel weird because I don't, I want to give away the stuff because I don't have to do with it, but yeah, I guess if people are willing to pay for the shipping, we might have some computer equipment because that's where we have the most of is big things, but big things become a problem because they just, they're too big. Well, you know, 50, 60 bucks at least for shipping. So whether or not people really want them, and it's just used hardware that we have. If you're local, you could come pick it up, but not, I think the majority of the people on here aren't local or don't want to make the road trip all the way to Detroit just to pick up some old server that we want to, you know, offload. Huh, sorry, a little tired. But nonetheless, I'm gonna be winding this down in about 10 more minutes. Sorry, this is not a real in-depth one today. I didn't have too much things going, too many things going on because it got caught up actually working today. It's been really, all these work has been interfering with me getting a lot of stuff done, you know, and then Comcast created some chaos for us because that's what Comcast does, shows up at a customer's and unplugged things because it's Thursday and they felt like doing that. I'm not even clear exactly what the catalyst was for Comcast to show up, grab the cable modem, put a new one in, put it in bridge mode and bypass the router and just plug it in the switch because, you know, I don't know, it's Thursday and that's what Comcast wanted to do is create some billable hours for us. So, you know, it's just so much fun when they do these things. Reopen will catch up on lots of maintenance upgrade, not really, we were still went onsite and did all the maintenance and upgrades even with things not being open nature of it.  You know, it's, we were part of the essential customers that had to make things, we had to make things happen. That's the bottom line of it. So we did, simple as that. Went out there and we still upgraded servers, installed wiring, cabling and all those things. So, swing by, oh, okay, you'll swing by Tom, I missed that one right there. Well, let's see. Cabobs at Malix. Yes, I do love cabobs. That's definitely good. No hacking news. I don't know. You know, here's the thing I can rant about because I might do a video on this is all these people that are really, you know, wanna trust VPNs and VPNs are so oversold. I thought about putting together like a super cut of all the non-tech YouTubers that are shilling VPNs, you know what I mean? Do you care about your privacy and security? You should be using a VPN, blah, blah, blah. And they're overselling it, overstating the problem. And it goes right back to the recent bust at the Anom service. And it's one of those things I've said for a long time. And I thought funny because Bruce Schneier, I retweeted what he had said too because it's right on point. Do you even trust these VPN providers? Because the whole premise of this Anom takedown, this project that was a series of criminals that were using an encrypted chat service that was actually run by the FBI was exactly how any government agency would catch people, create a service, charge for the service, make lots of privacy claims, get all the people that wanna do something that they wanna hide from the government, they all flock to you. It's like the most logical way to do it rather than try to figure out who's breaking it. Have a service that will protect you for breaking the law. And it's funny because this seems like the best methodology and the fact that this went on for two years, close to three, so he started the project in 2018 and it finally came unraveled here in 2021. And this is the, how can you trust these VPN companies? Like we get a lot of people, unfortunately, that are misinformed reaching out to us going, I need to hide my IP address from the government. And I'm like, oh God, no, no, that's, it's, what are you doing? Honestly, if you wanna use VPN because you want to do country bypass, that's normal, we get it, you're torrenting, we get it, we know. Like those are fine reasons. And I don't think a, well, as a matter of fact, it's a matter of time before some Hollywood company, simply some, and I see a Hollywood company, I'm specifically talking about companies that, in the movie industry, because they're often terrible and have a lot of power in the media industry, they set up a VPN service so they can figure out who's trying to copy things and stuff like that. So kind of like how Tor nodes are government run. Yeah, that's, I've covered that before and that's another confusing topic as well. Tor itself is good, but there's been a lot more attacks on Tor nodes in the last two years since I did my last video. So there's actually some interesting revelations for what's going on on the Tor networks and how many more, and it's actually not government, it's a series of criminals are spinning up Tor nodes and doing a bunch of redirects to try to get a snatch people's cryptocurrency. It's been a really, there's some good write-ups on it. I've tweeted them out before, but it's complicated. Yes, you need a VPN for Netflix when overseas. That's true. And the main reason of VPN is keeping people from shenanigans if using an open Wi-Fi, but also making it harder for data aggregators, build profiles. Honestly, the data aggregators, build profiles and IP address is a very weak indicator for data aggregators. Your login and your Google account are the aggregators. The IP address is irrelevant. Matter of fact, by the way folks, all you who hate CG NAT, CG NAT is the reason they don't use IP addresses as a data point. It's a very weak data point. It usually just indicates region to them. It's not specific. One, even at home, there's too many devices behind a single IP address. Second, with more and more carriers, ISPs going to carry a great NAT, it becomes an even weaker data point again for who you are. Your IP address is not who you are. The other details are who you are. The cookies in your browser, that's where all of your, where all your data is. So it's like one of those things like they have so oversold it because it's easy to sell. So there's a lot of money in it. So they sponsor, I turned down those sponsors. There's a ton of them. It is one of the most frequent every YouTuber gets offered more and more money until they say yes to a VPN company to do the advertisement. And they keep just offering you more and more money. Therefore, they pitch it harder and harder of this is the only way you'll be secure if you have a VPN. And you're trying to protect yourself from shenanigans on an open Wi-Fi hoping the VPN provider doesn't do shenanigans. You're kicking the can down the road because you're worried about someone in the open Wi-Fi doing shenanigans when someone can just as easily redirect you and do shenanigans on the VPN. You're just kicking the can of trust to a different location. And once you start realizing that you're like, oh, wow, yeah, that's interesting. IP address maps with Wi-Fi, SID MAC addresses. Well, this is why most devices, and by the way, your MAC address doesn't go past the second device. So if I take my laptop to McDonald's the MAC address doesn't go past the McDonald's router. They don't have my MAC address when I go to Google. And this is where some of the conflation starts coming in. So it's a lot, it's people often focusing on the wrong things and click a phishing link and that's usually how they get hacked. So, oh, how is the VPN on the latest UniFi?  It's, they're just not great. It's just not a great system. We just tell people don't use it. Like if you have advanced VPN uses, don't buy a UniFi. Don't use the USG router. Don't use the UniFi dream machine. They are empty promises forever about we're gonna make it better. That's how I feel about it. So, Windows 7 says hello. I just like, there we go. Windows 7 says hello. I like the name. Yeah, my boss had the CLI of the VPN to get a site to site working. Yeah, it's just, there's all kinds of hacky ways you can do stuff. But yeah, I don't think so. It's not, I don't know. Let's see. Can you build a locally hosted UniFi controller? Yes, you can download and load the software for the UniFi control yourself. Tell us how you really feel about VPNs. I know, the oversold, it's gonna make me safer thing is what drives me nuts. Especially, you know, the non-tech YouTubers who do ad reads for VPNs. It's just, they don't understand. They're just reading the words. So, yeah. What else do we have in here? I see my son. I think I gotta get my son a pizza. Do you want pizza, Marcus? I think my son's listening probably. And like Eric said, it's not that we don't use VPNs. There's times to use them, but using them for the wrong reason is usually where, you know, the confusion sets in and stuff like that. I don't have time to go to pizza hut, Marcus. This is how I have conversations with my son live on my YouTube channel. Yeah, VPNs are not a license for illegal activity. That is very true. If you plan to do illegal activity, the VPN, matter of fact, there's several stories. I think I may have covered this a long, a while ago. There's several stories of VPN companies cooperating with law enforcement to track down and find people. They realized the VPN they were doing it. Then law enforcement then worked with that VPN company who didn't keep any logs, but the VPN company, the claim they had was, well, they only kept logs looking for the one person. And this is where everything starts getting kind of fuzzy real quick, because what do you mean one person? Well, yeah, law enforcement compelled us to turn on logging, but we threw everything away except for the logs for one person. Well, this is my point. You're not paying a company that you think is helping you privately. They're not doing anything other than taking your money and slowing down your internet connection. Yeah, it's just, I don't know. Oh, let's see. Yep, most people aren't using VPNs for Liashanga instead of smearing them. No, they're not, but people are using, my problem is when people are using VPNs thinking they're getting an elevated form of privacy, when they're not, that's where I think you're just wasting money. And I mean, maybe if you just want to donate money to these VPN companies, that's fine. And I'm the one that's wrong. I'm just trying to tell people, like you probably aren't getting any better privacy out of this. Therefore you may as well just not use it and save yourself a few bucks or use my offer code down below. That's how I should probably pitch all those. Like at some point, if I'm not, I do as I do, I have an offer code for PIA. And the reason I have it is because I can tell people with the words I use not to do it. But if you're not gonna do it, I may as well make some money off it. I mean, why not? At some point, I can't convince people. We've joked about this before when we've had consulting on bad ideas, we call it, where people were really insistent they want to set things up in a weird way that we tell them not to, but you will still set it up that way because you're paying me to do it. I mean, it's sometimes just the way things are. People want to learn for themselves and we'll set it up for them. I mean, I won't do anything that's going to create a massive security hole, but we've seen people skip these critical components and their stack that will make it less resilient or like, I'll set it up this way, but here's your, you know, I'll still do it, but here's where the system is most likely to fail. And it is what it is. Ah, yes, if you, if a court subpoena is a pure intercompany, they will have to cooperate. Yep. Even if they claim they're in another country, that's where things get fuzzy again. They can be compelled, they can be pressured. It's a very convoluted mess very quickly. And you don't need people to sign waivers. It's referred to as hold harmless. You just let people know you have an document. It can be as simple as an email. I think this is where this system, you should buy a second XYZ. We don't think you should run things in RAID zero because it is likely to fail, but yes, we know it's faster. Therefore, we will follow your wishes and set everything up in RAID zero for you with no backups. No problem. We'll set it up. Here's my email that tells you why we know this is a bad idea. Please confirm that you've read that part of it. So, oh yes, the story behind lava bit is a fun one too. So that's another one that's, yeah. Lava bit is, it was a big turning point because when lava bit ran their email service, he had the keys to be able to decrypt the email and he was compelled by the government to keep his service running so they could use it for spying. He wanted to shut it down. So it became a really interesting legal case and it's kind of messy. So it's definitely one of those things. So, oh, let's see. I think I've answered all the major questions there in here. I'm gonna give it two more minutes. Any final questions for me before I wind this down so I can grab my son a pizza and go do the next thing I gotta go do? Ah, doing the research on the company and the team has been around, yeah. It's doing your research on the company and founders team is a good idea and use one that's been around for a long time doesn't have misleading advertising. Sounds good, but until you actually, they ran the other one for two years. The FBI one run over two years before they shut it down. So it's fuzzy on how well you can trust those. So, yeah, best VPN is a home cloud VPN. So, yep, that's two, two. Oh yes, a better micro tick question for next week. Yeah. I don't really do much for cryptocurrency. It's not my thing. I don't participate in it. That's why you don't have me talking much about the crypto stuff. Can you run PF Sense with a UDM? No, no good reason to do that. I don't recommend it in any way. Pineapple pizza. I like it, but I know that's a controversial opinion there because not everybody likes pineapple pizza. Either way, if a few of you could take a minute to hit the like button, we have 177 viewers, but only 45 likes. So if you could do that, that'd be great. Hit that subscribe button. We have, this is something I gotta go in again. This is the, I should probably make it bigger. So let's go here. There we go. This is actually running a little Raspberry Pi and it's running E-Ink. Cool little project that allows me to have my subscribers and stuff on this. I'm gonna build a bigger one. I think it's a, it's pretty novel for being able to do it. So I might, if I get around to it, I might do a project video on this. This is a Pi Zero with an E-Ink display and a little 3D printed case. And it's got a little Python script. Miles put this together and you run the script and it updates how many subscribers on there.  You know, when you run the script, it updates the display. E-Ink does not refresh normally. So you send a refresh command to clear the E-Ink. It reminds you of an Etch-a-Sketch. And then it will print something back on there on the second part of the command. So things are static when there's no power. So it's kind of neat. Someone says, and fair question is, is there any point in getting a second hand Cisco switch if I can just get that TP-Link managed with a better UI? If you want to learn Cisco, get a new Cisco switch. If you don't want to learn Cisco, go with something else that's probably more affordable. So, yeah, that's probably a big one right there. Think that's about it. Oh yeah, that's right. I did a video on this, the Ponogachi. There is a video I have on it. So it's the same E-Ink display from the Ponogachi. We got bored with the Ponogachi, so now we move to something else. Yes, use Cisco switches last forever. They are long lasting. The quality of a Cisco switch is good. It's the function of it. If you don't want to learn the UI, then you don't want a Cisco switch. Just they have a higher learning curve to them. Maybe it's worth it for you. Maybe it's not. That's kind of a U decision. Do you want to learn the Cisco commands to configure that switch? You're gonna have to learn some of the Cisco environment so it's up to get it. It's not that it's impossible to learn, but it does have a learning curve versus the UI is more intuitive on something like a Unify or some of the TP-Link switches. They have a little easier to use UI. So that's kind of, that's more where the decision comes down to. Knowing iOS can be a struggle for some. And that's true.  So now you got to spend a bunch of time configuring it or maybe you have a friend that can configure it. Those are the decisions you have to figure out. And once it's in place, great, until it's not in place, better document what you changed or what you set up because if it breaks, you're gonna have to do it over again. So that's where things get a little bit complicated. But anyways, thank you everyone for joining. I still, yeah, we got 48 minutes of me. So, the, oh yeah, the Cisco is at least handy for the CLI editing and things like that. But thanks everyone for joining. Check it out. I'll see you guys in the forums. See you next Thursday at my, do another live show. I'm going to be working through the weekend to get a few more videos out in between and take care.


Who's Askin? Police. His name's Akins. You're more all right.  Lean on the car. What's the beef? Burglary. West over market last July. Turn around. I suppose you've got a warrant? It's fine. I've got other plans. That's how Detective Akins became a statistic. One of a dangerously growing number of police officers were killed or injured while making an arrest. Akins was lucky. He ended up in the injured column. But that was because a doctor knew more about surgery than Akins knew about making an arrest. Or maybe he did know better. But he made one common and often deadly mistake. To him, arrests had become routine. He grew careless. Careless in trying to make a planned arrest single-handed just because his partner called in sick. Careless in search technique. Careless in using handcuffs. Careless because he forgot that making an arrest is the most dangerous job in law enforcement. Now let's take a look at a similar situation. No news is good news.  Anything not to have to listen to you all night, Boeman? Hey, cut back into that burger joint. There was a great convertible. Could be the one they think that salesman Eisner stole over on 34th Street a couple of hours ago. Any dope on it? Yeah, slow down a minute. Burglary warrant out of criminal court. Good mug shot. Four-inch cut scar right side of face. Easy make. Any gun? Didn't say. OK. Car 21, going 10-6. Investigating suspicious vehicle. Let's see. Police officer, Sheen and Boeman, you're under arrest, Eisner. There's a warrant out charging you with first degree burglary. Put up your hands. Turn around slowly. Take two steps backward. Now lean against the car and spread your legs. Way out and way back. Professionals. One man in charge and doing all the talking. Clear, forceful, all business. The subject knows he's under arrest and why. There's no doubt in his mind about what he's expected to do or what will happen to him if he doesn't. He's searched thoroughly and methodically. The search, though complete, is a preliminary one and no substitute for a later strip search. The restraining officer should stay as far apart from and behind the subject as possible. Always check the cuffs for proper fit and use the double lock to prevent any accidental or self-induced over-tightness. When a subject is apprehended in possession of an automobile, be sure to search the car incidental to his arrest. Make certain that the subject's car is completely secured following the search. This could be a vital point in a later court proceeding. Always place the subject in a vehicle as far from the driver as possible. In other words, never give a criminal an opening. He may use it. How did the patrolman make out? Very well, because they took nothing for granted. Never got careless. They knew that uniforms and jurisdictions change, but hoodlums don't. But what of the non-professional criminal? Far removed from the hoodlum mentality, the subject for whom the arrest warrant is the first black mark on a lifelong record of respectability. What can be expected of him? I negotiated another little loan at the company today, Alfred. Of course, most of the proceeds went into our retirement fund. But I held out enough for a little celebration. The auditors left today and not one worried about our fund. We're safe for another year, Alfred. And after that, we shall have reached our goal. Yes, yes, just a minute. I'm coming. Yes? Henry Mead? Yes? We're police officers. I'm Detective Sergeant Case. This is Detective Hester. May we come in? Of course. I don't understand. I'm sorry, Mr. Mead, but we have a warrant for your arrest charging you with grand larceny from the municipal finance company. You'll have to come with us. But the auditors, they said nothing. But they couldn't have. Mr. Mead, anything you say from now on can be used against you in court. I know. I know. It's all right. Mr. Mead? Yes? The can opener. Of course. Would you raise your arms a second, Mr. Mead? Huh? But what about Alfred? Alfred? Alfred and I are very old friends. Well, we'll see that the landlord looks after your cat. May I say goodbye to him? Sure, Mr. Mead. How inexcusable of me, Alfred. I've forgotten your cat name. I'm sorry, Alfred. Attempts to kill arresting officers or to commit suicide, both in this instance successful, are among the many possible reactions to be expected of any subject no matter what his background or appearance. Other reactions include flight and peaceful submission with rescue by a confederate. There are as many more as the imagination of desperate men can devise. It is your duty to be ready for any of them. Detective's case and Hester were not. As a result, they died. And so did the subject, for whose safety they were responsible from the moment he was placed under arrest. Big city detective or small town officer. Under the law, every arresting officer has this same responsibility. He should not allow his personal feelings for the subject, his respect for community status, past friendships, or misplaced sentiment to interfere with what he knows to be proper arrest techniques to protect himself and the subject. Now tell me you've been out the town since place before. When I was a kid, Chief, my daddy used to work for Thompson furniture. You know, the big party for all the company kids for the July. Most every kid in town was there. Half their folks were working for Thompson, the rest stuck in. Thompson didn't care. He was like that. Town's been good to Thompson. He's been good to the town. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, miss. I'm Chief Hancock. We'd like to see Mr. Thompson. Oh, yes, sir. Mr. Thompson is working in a shop. If you gentlemen will step inside, I'll tell Mr. Thompson you're here. I'm afraid that won't do, miss. I'll have to ask you to take us along with you. Very well, gentlemen. If you'll follow me, please. Excuse the intrusion, Mr. Thompson. How are you? Fine. Do you know Officer Manning? How are you, Manning? Well, what's the matter, Chief? My check for bail and traffic court the other night bounce. I'm afraid it isn't reckless driving any more, Mr. Thompson. The little girl died. Her folks have sworn out a complaint charging you with manslaughter. I have a warrant here from Judge Simon. I have to place you under arrest, Mr. Thompson. You extend your arms to the side, please. Now, you don't have to tell me anything about it, Mr. Thompson. But anything you do say, you OK, Thompson? Good, yeah. Boy's mind if I put my coat back on. Heck no, Bob.  The shock of arrest makes any subject's reaction unpredictable and potentially dangerous. The granting of personal favors immediately following an arrest should therefore be given very careful consideration, deny or closely supervise any requests for water, use of the bathroom, articles of clothing, and the like. Thompson's attempt at self-destruction was thwarted by the arresting officers, the difference, training, planning, alertness, the triple play that gives the best assurance of a successful arrest. The Romans had a saying, civis pacum, powerabella. If you want peace, prepare for war. Eyeball one to dugout. This is dugout. This is eyeball one. The view is fine and over. 10-3, eyeball one. Stay with it. Some people who've seen the kids recently are sure we have the right ones. Eyeball two. 10-3, dugout. I read you loud and clear. Got a good view of the schoolyard here. If anybody tries to play hooky, we're in good position. Over. 10-3, Captain Kramer. Put me through the chief, please. Yes. Put him on. He chose some loss, no right, boss. We have positive idents from the room clerk, parking lot attendant, and a bellboy they sent out for beer and sandwiches. I've got a commanding tape route survey with a 60-second camera. What are you doing about clearing the surrounding rooms? The manager's calling all the people into his office on a pretext. When they get there, Lieutenant Tully explains. They're putting them in the dining room with food and television. That's it, sir. OK, Pete, come on in with the panel truck. We'll be waiting for you in squad room one. Farrington. Yes, sir. Kramer's lined up a hot one. Meet me in squad room one in 15 minutes, and bring your heavy squad. Are there any questions concerning the raid area? Any questions at all about any phase of this operation? All right, now I want each of you to come up to the board and show me just what you'll do from start to finish. They'll start with you, Captain Kramer. Preparation, the factor that separates the men from the boys, the heavies from the lightweights, those who will live from those who will die. Keep your raid plan simple. Use your knowledge of the subjects and the results of a careful, detailed reconnaissance. Use maps, photographs, and diagrams showing possible escape routes, cover, and weapons needed. Then, when you're sure every man knows his assignment, you're ready. Just unit five and the chief, Captain. All the rest are in position. Have acknowledged. Dugout to shortstop. 10-3 shortstop. Check off unit five. That leaves just the chief, right? Right. Dugout to pitcher. This is dugout. Pitcher, you may take them out. Units, this is dugout. Play ball, play ball. This is the police. This is the first and last call. The next message will be a gas shell. Well, what is it? What is it? It's the end of the line for now, Schultz. What? The cops do with the stinking lousy cops. Of course, it's finished. County, state, or federal. Professional officers know the fundamentals of a successful arrest by heart. Simplicity of plan, speed of execution, surprise, superiority of manpower and firepower, and the safety of all individuals concerned. There can be no such thing as a routine arrest. For these men know that the greatest danger is carelessness. Stay alert and stay alive.