Believe it or not, it’s been a while since I’ve been up in the middle of the night drinking coffee for no reason. Somehow I got carried away in my organizational frenzy this evening…This time it was organizing, clearing up and securing my electronic files. Changing passwords, archiving backups…Generally walking the tightrope of diligent behavior and you know, just being weird.
If you think that’s weird…
I’ve had a passing interest in “prepping” for a while…but nothing extreme. Keeping some stuff in the car in case I break down. Same thing w/ putting a kit together for the house…never know if you’ll lose power or a water main will break.
Well, someone posted this link: Your Emergency Computer Kit. This was a complete geeky prepper…I’m not talking about throwing a backup dvd of important files in your BOB. He gets into the importance of backups, integrity checking and complete drive encryption in case you have to leave it behind.
It’s interesting to see the electronic world and survivalist worlds intersect… After all, geeks want security and privacy from Big Brother–and if the protests of PIPA and SOPA were any indicator: geeks are against an overreaching government. You can see where some of that ideology is shared w/ the survivalist.
So, now you see people talking about their CCW and RFID blocking wallet in the same conversation.
Anyway, I got a kick out of it.
