blueshoes
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Post by blueshoes on Dec 15, 2016 16:42:09 GMT 10
With credit to paranoia for the encouragement (i know, ages ago) to actually put this up... It seems there are lots of IT-types and ex-IT-types around the preparedness world, and there are lots of good reasons for this. 'Real' IT people (the ones who have and use/d hands-on technical skills) are natural preppers for a combination of many reasons: - Because ICT people are always fixing things, we know how fragile the systems that hold up our society are. - We spend our working lives backing up systems, and creating backup systems and plan B's and failovers: If 'go to shops' fails, what do we eat? - We are well versed in redundancy. Having more than one way to do things applies to work as well as things like having more than one way to cook dinner. - We are used to seeing through managerial over-confidence. Just because "we are never going to have a blackout in this building" doesn't mean we aren't going to make a plan anyway - Multiple modes of failure apply to seriously *everything* - OpSec: we instinctively think about risks from various sources and don't publish details about our defences if we don't have to - Innovation: IT is always changing. If you're not watching the game you'll get left behind... innovators do well with preparing too, there's always creative and double uses for things - Diversification: we get nervous if a single point of failure could take out multiple things - We are used to convincing management and/or spouses that we 'need' things for reasons they may not understand What did I miss? Do you agree?
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shinester
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Post by shinester on Dec 15, 2016 19:19:04 GMT 10
Ha, life redundancies [preps] with off site backup [BOB & BOL]. I can see it now. My IT friends might be into having weapons like crowbars on stands for the 'inevitable' fictional zombie apocalypse, though I'm not sure any of them are preppers, unless they're 'really' good aka OPSEC
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Post by Peter on Dec 15, 2016 20:25:52 GMT 10
I remember in the mid-late 90's when I studied IT at uni, the big topic was the impending "Millenium Bug" threat. So many IT teachers, lecturers, etc camped away from any major centre that New Year's. Even through nothing major ever happened, there was definitely reason for concern.
Again - as you said - they knew how entwined and interdependent our systems were, even 20-odd years ago. It's even more complex now.
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Post by frontsight on Dec 15, 2016 20:56:24 GMT 10
20 years ago, I didn't need a cell phone, nor 24/7 internet to function and email address was something we got as Uni students but never used. Now I am a slave.... But I think people born before the 90s are better off when SHTF, I still know how to read a map..
twooldblueshoes btw you missed one thing... Lots of people (wrongly) think IT people are weird, unsociable types, so might as well be preppers.
Now that I think of it, the IT manager from my last company is pretty cool and gets along with us well, he always rides an on/off road bikes and has a large stash of food.... prefect grey man.....
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Post by graynomad on Dec 15, 2016 23:15:01 GMT 10
I spent many years working in electronics and IT and I wouldn't trust a computer as far as I could throw it unless I had no choice.
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myrrph
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Post by myrrph on Dec 16, 2016 11:15:53 GMT 10
i agree with this wholeheartedly.
on eve of 1999 i was at a beach with my ex with what became the beginnings of my preps ... lol
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tyburn
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Post by tyburn on Dec 19, 2016 17:48:47 GMT 10
I had a cousin who was pretty much able to retire at age 30 on all the money he made doing Y2K preparation for several national governments. (Only prob was he then had 3 kids in quick sucession, which put retirement age back to the mid-forties).
I work with a lot of IT guys. They're much better at analytical stuff than the average Chinese is, but I still don't see any of them interested in preparedness or anything else outside of their narrow world view (unless its in a computer game that is).
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Post by thereth on Dec 20, 2016 13:18:06 GMT 10
I had a cousin who was pretty much able to retire at age 30 on all the money he made doing Y2K preparation for several national governments. (Only prob was he then had 3 kids in quick sucession, which put retirement age back to the mid-forties). I work with a lot of IT guys. They're much better at analytical stuff than the average Chinese is, but I still don't see any of them interested in preparedness or anything else outside of their narrow world view (unless its in a computer game that is). I find most IT people (myself included) are very private people in regards to their personal lives, so there is always the chance they just dont mention it
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