Ben Justman🍷
· 2d
It's clear there's going to be some sort of big Cyber attack that will hit the global consciousness the way the cold card hack hit bitcoiners at some point relatively soon.
Whether it's a false flag...
Depends on what we're talking about. If it's AWS & cloud services then prob carry on like normal. The laptop acting as a server on my desk and anything more decentralized like Syncthing/Nostr is pretty undisturbed by that sort of stuff. Though some cash on hand, and having a few different banking options (different credit cards, some cash in services like PayPal, ect), could be handy to make sure I could buy things.
If you mean something really serious, like taking out the Grid and the internet, then that's a different story. A few days at least of food, fuel, batteries, and the like; warm clothes, a wind up radio/flashlight, a weapon, and probably some sort of solar power. I've got a mini folding panel for phones, but if/when I buy a house I'd love to setup some cheap used panels on some posts or something, maybe get myself a makeshift mini off grid power source that's got enough juice to at least charge an electric motorcycle if not Lvl 2 EV charging. Otherwise, probably a generator.
Also probably wouldn't hurt to have offline data. Kiwix, Survival Manual, Trail Sense, and Equate all are pretty useful offline data apps - not to mention ebooks & physical books, offline LLMs, & physical maps or offline navigation apps like Organic Maps/OSMand.
My 2c