Karl Kasarda / InRangeTV / 2gACM / Karl-InRangeTV - satanist cuckold guntuber with cringe haircut and a Kubelwagen hates yt

Did Karl actually work in infosec, or was he more akin to those dangerhair and tranny grifters who pretend to be infosec greyhats for internet clout.

Karl says he has his CISSP certification here.
The cert requires 5 years of previous work in a security role, and he says he got it along time before the making of the video, so it seems he has worked in infosec roles for most of his career.
 

Found a link of Karl on a podcast discussing his background.

(At 5:00) I ended up doing help desk at this one company and they noticed that's where my interests were,
and I ended up becoming their information security architect over a couple years, and that turned into a multiple decade career pretty much culminating
in working at a tier 1 internet backbone provider doing sub c fiber optic routing, networking, DDoS mitigation, and botnet control search and destroy.

It all makes sense now.

Karl Kasarda mastermind behind dropping the Farms???
 

Found a link of Karl on a podcast discussing his background.



It all makes sense now.

Karl Kasarda mastermind behind dropping the Farms???
I'm not too terribly versed on what all actually goes into cyber security but that doesn't sound all that impressive from my outsider's perspective. That seems like the sort of run of the mill thing you'd expect an infosec guy to do, not anything extraordinary.
 
I'm not too terribly versed on what all actually goes into cyber security but that doesn't sound all that impressive from my outsider's perspective. That seems like the sort of run of the mill thing you'd expect an infosec guy to do, not anything extraordinary.
It sounds like he got more in to the management side of things rather than the trench coat wearing 1337 Red team pentesting side of things that everyone pictures for cybersec. That tracks with the CISSP cert because its more of a security management certification.
 
It sounds like he got more in to the management side of things rather than the trench coat wearing 1337 Red team pentesting side of things that everyone pictures for cybersec. That tracks with the CISSP cert because its more of a security management certification.
Makes sense, I have a fair bit of experience on physical security but I'm not the most informed when it comes to the cyber side of things, I know personal infosec but not corporate/professional infosec.
 
I hope this thread will become a place where people regularly point out the insightful takes Karl has offered on Guns and History, then going on to relentlessly mocking him for his poor life choices.

I wish he would have continued the discussion about the Army adopting lever guns in the 1870s.

I think you end up with Amerocans using 1895s in the Argonne and having some use in WWII just like some Marine units used 1903s early on.
 

I wish he would have continued the discussion about the Army adopting lever guns in the 1870s.

I think you end up with Amerocans using 1895s in the Argonne and having some use in WWII just like some Marine units used 1903s early on.
It would have been an apocalyptically bad idea to issue lever guns in WWI. They are more mechanically complex, more fragile (particularly the loading tubes), more expensive, and typically cannot use Spitzer bullets unless you add additional features to them which makes the gun more complex, more expensive, and in some cases more fragile. I've fucked with 1895 Winchesters and I would rather individually pluck every single hair out of my scrotum before trying to get that thing clean from Argonne mud in field conditions. Particularly if I were some poor dumb 16 year old who lied about his age to get in and has never been more than twenty miles from home in my life before now.
 
Holy shit! I didn't know Karl was this bad! I tend to watch Forgotten Weapons more than InRange.

I hope Ian never goes cow. That's gonna be a genuinely sad day if he does.


I've heard conflicting stories about that mess. Some people say that Ian stabbed Vickers in the back, while others say that the whole thing simply got way too autistic.

There was also that time Ian was gonna put out a book about the Ukraine War, but it turned out the guy he was collaborating with was part of Azov Battalion. He ended up shitcanning the whole thing and deleting the videos (these are archives).


I can see how some people will accuse him of cucking, but I also think the poor man simply wants to do videos about firearms and their history and he's probably paranoid he's gonna get yeeted at any moment. If you ask me, Ian has a winning formula and he absolutely shouldn't get political. Not everything has to be political.
If I recall correctly, this is what caused Max Popenker to pull the History of the AK book he was working on for Headstamp Publishing.
Regarding the book on the Azov Bn. What was almost certainly going to happen, was that a group of permanently online lefties, would cause enough shit so that large institutions such as Royal Armories would never be able to have any dealings with him. As soon as they got a reputable source such as Mother Jones to write an article saying he was promoting NAAZIs then he'd have been fucked.
Ironic, given that the last 12 months has had these same people declaring that Azov are a bunch of heroic freedom fighter good bois that dindu nuffin.
 
Ironic, given that the last 12 months has had these same people declaring that Azov are a bunch of heroic freedom fighter good bois that dindu nuffin.
That was actually something we discussed in the guntuber general, if he'd been eight months or so later to the announcement of the book it wouldn't have been an issue that they were nazis.
 
Superb thread. I didn't really know anything about Kasarda and was under the impression he looked like some sort of George Costanza/Vizzini mixture and seeing he ACTUALLY has the desert tweaker hobo look down so perfectly and a lot of things make more sense.

Also lol satan:
 
It would have been an apocalyptically bad idea to issue lever guns in WWI. They are more mechanically complex, more fragile (particularly the loading tubes), more expensive, and typically cannot use Spitzer bullets unless you add additional features to them which makes the gun more complex, more expensive, and in some cases more fragile. I've fucked with 1895 Winchesters and I would rather individually pluck every single hair out of my scrotum before trying to get that thing clean from Argonne mud in field conditions. Particularly if I were some poor dumb 16 year old who lied about his age to get in and has never been more than twenty miles from home in my life before now.
Using Spitzer bullets is irrelevant in an 1895 as it uses a box magazine.

The Russians put nearly 300,000 of them into frontline service and they seemed to work out ok.
 
Using Spitzer bullets is irrelevant in an 1895 as it uses a box magazine.

The Russians put nearly 300,000 of them into frontline service and they seemed to work out ok.
The Russians used whatever the hell they could get their hands on, and yes the 1895 does use a box magazine but it's all around going to be outclassed by most contemporary bolt actions.

The lever gun is just in an unfortunate position for military service, or at least frontline/standardized adoption. Nobody besides the United States ever really used them or bought them commercially in any real capacity (except for the Russians but once again they were desperate for anything that could shoot), they're too expensive for the US Army or Navy during the golden age of the lever action in the American West and the various Indian Wars, and they're not as good as bolt actions for standard issue by the time the US actually gets around to having a standing army that was more than just a frontier peacekeeping force. But that takes until pretty much the start of WWII, even after WWI the US military was overwhelmingly National Guard units.

Edit to add: Even if the lever action was given serious thought in the interwar period of the twenties and thirties it most likely wouldn't pan out since you see the semi-automatic rifle initiative start in the late twenties or early thirties (just going off of memory, I'm too lazy to look it up right now).
 
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