Comment on Should I actually be prepping right now out of fear of hackers?
RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Nothing wrong with prepping. Even the government says to have a 72 hour kit.
As for prepping specifically for being hacked - have good backups of any data you can’t be without. Keep your devices updated. Use 2fa where ever you can as well as strong unique passwords.
I’m not seeing a situation were being hacked would require a tent or gas mask.
An argument could be made for a solar panel and a power bank (assuming you can place it and your power bank in direct sunlight for 8 hours).
2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But if the chemical plant near you gets hacked, then you might be grateful to have a gas mask…
But that kind of thing is highly dependent on location and your own personal risk profile. Personally, I do have gas masks for me and my girlfriend (old Polish military surplus that’s compatible with NATO filters, only about $30 each), but those are much more likely to be used for rioting/protesting than for emergency preparedness.
(Though, actually, I did use it once in an emergency. A small kitchen fire started while we were on a walk. Put it out pretty easily with a fire extinguisher when we came back, but it was a pretty nasty smoky fire and filled the house with toxic-smelling smoke. We had two cats inside that I wanted to rescue, so I put on my gas mask to help find them. Once I found the gas mask and got it on, it was so much easier to see and breathe in the smoke. Which was good. One cat was quick and easy to find – came right to me. But the other cat had hidden in a pile of stuff in a corner and took quite a bit of effort to find – she was lethargic and weak when I finally found her, obviously suffering badly from smoke inhalation, but she recovered within a few minutes once I brought her outside into fresh air. For a couple days after that, we left all the windows open and lived in a travel trailer in the back yard instead, the cats as well. After that, the smell of smoke mostly cleared out, and we could move back in. I guess an RV in the back yard is also nice to have for emergency preparedness – it’s kind of an entire backup house when you need one.)