Not living anyplace earthquake prone, but generally prepared.

2 Generators (need to convert one or both to propane since that stores well)
A couple months supply of water, plus a reliable spring on property.
A few months on food. (just regular sundries that get rotated through)

It really surprises me when a blizzard happens and people are running to stock up. Sure I make a french toast run (Milk Eggs Bread) as boxed milk is expensive to regularly use, eggs well they go bad and powered eggs same as milk, and bread well its easier than making from scratch.

As to long term prep talk to the LDS people while I don't condone there or anybody else's religion they seem to have a love of being prepared.

As far as data goes personal backups are stored at multiple offsite facilities and have a portable copy of the critical stuff.

3 Phones
3 Tablets
2 Notebooks but wireless use is rare
1 roku (1 so wifi only)
1 Xbox 360
1 Printer (Large format inkjet)

Wired
2 R Pi
1 Custom arduiono compatible head end (acts as a bridge for several low speed wireless networks)
3 Desktops
1 Server
3 Roku
1 Laser printer

In total I've got 3 AP's and need 2 more to finish coverage of the house and garage. May add one to a tree fort. One of those AP's and the wired printer are via powerline ethernet as I've not had time to hard wire them.

Because reprocessing works, there is little reason to store high level waste it's valuable feed stock to our current commercial plants. New designs do not intentionally make a lot of weapons grade byproducts to feed cold war arms races.

Shh the eco freaks dislike fission get with the warm fuzzy of does not actually work tech.

Fission works ok now, we have the tech to use more efficient cycles, hell we have the tech to reprocess the fuel rods for existing plants.

You can skip the overwrite on a SSD just trim the whole thing reads will be all zero's as it's an unassigned block. If you need to protect the data that much you destroy the drive.

I would never expect new drives on a leased box as it's a leased box. Nor would I expect them to sanitize my data before handing it to a new customer. I work with a lot of hosting companies and it's not very uniform. One dirt cheap place runs everything through dban before handing it back others not so much. If you need to insure this happens expect to pay for it.

From the looks of it a 1d array might work rather well and get the frame rates required. I didn't say generic cell phone just fitting in the form factor or close enough to not be suspicious. This could fit in existing security camera form factors (the 18 ish inch long all weather enclosures commonly used) that are so common as to be forgotten.

We fired the tech writers 20 years ago and told the devs to do it. Remember Dec with it's bookcase of manuals? When we paid people to document they documented, I'm sure some better than others but they did it. RHEL has a decent set of docs to go with it, far from perfect but workable and obviously it works for Centos as well.

And with good optics the camera could be just/nearly as far away. Laser is old know tech so places will have countermeasures and detection setup. Miniaturization can also come into place where you can shove the camera into a cell phone etc.

Because your emitting something sending that IR laser to do it. This is completely passive.

The problem is that is a direct analogy this is a third party. This is forcing a neutral third party to potentially commit a crime because a us court ordered them to.

No it should not. Getting a warrant in the country the data is stored is not a high bar. Yes this means in most civilized countries you can not get a warrant to look for something that is legal there. This is a good thing.

In this particular case it looks like the DOJ is fishing as getting a court order in Ireland for a legit criminal case should be easy.

Yea it's called asking a judge in Ireland.

One example given was a keyboard that can guess your password (watch for the first string you type) and then wakes up your pc in the wee hours to send the keylog to collections web sites. You need not install anything into the OS.

We already know that the NSA has swapped hardware in transit. This just makes it even easier. Often their is no facility to read the firmware back from these devices without physically accessing it and even then it may not be possible.

http://www.usb.org/developers/... has been around for a decade and a half. I'm sitting in front of a USB mouse that gets firmware updates. I've flashed USB keys with new firmware. USB devices can and do contain nonvolatile firmware not just flash drives and not just what is general accessed by the OS.