TOTM - November 2015 OPSEC

There is no company radio, or tracker. The last radio tower locally sold out to cell service more than 15years ago. At that time, our radio range dropped to only a couple of miles (no repeater). At that point the company issued cells for job use, (NEXTEL) and later smartphone so we techs had access to schematics, and such.
I do have my Boafeng uv-3R with me. But as for staying with the truck, I would, as long as rescue was a possibility. Events could remove that option.

 

All I'm saying, is a cell phone is not good or bad, any more than any other tool. Right and wrong is in how it is used or abused. ALL tools have trade offs. If not, we would only ever need one knife.
Show many ANY tool that can not be misused or abused. Don't say Hammers (blunt force trauma out wieght gun shot injuries by a LARGE margin).
The only time the TOOL is at fault.... You are dealing with a multimeter.

 

OpSec. So what is a prepper to do when they are going to sell their home? I know some on here have sold their home and I am wondering what they did with their preps. When you sell a home, strangers are viewing basically every inch of your house, opening closets, going in the basement etc... What do you do with food storage and other items that would be seen? I wonder if renting a storage unit is the answer.

 

Best way I know is to first have them moved to your next location, preferably at night.

 

None of those that you mention have the ability for the seller to track you.

 

I've already covered that three different ways. Turn it off. Turn off the tracking program. Or bag it. If that's not good enough to leave it at home.

 

Many do not have a new house prior to selling their current one. I could not afford two mortgages. Some house do not sell for months or a year. What do you do?

 

Well I just sucked it up and just figured it was all part of being a prepper. My time line covered a year.

 

You put it in boxes and bags with big honkin labels that say boring crap like "Sissy's Winter Jackets" and "Mikey's 3rd Grade Homework" and "Boy's Sports Awards". Just box it up like you would if you were moving. People expect to see that in homes for sale anyway.

Or if you're like me, you throw in a few "Neighbor's Cat" for giggles.

 

Thank you @ditchwitch, I like that idea.

I thought about my shelves and stuff and kept wondering how would one conceal this stuff from nosy home-buyers. There is only so much you can hide in plain site.

 

Brings up the memory of a major move.
I could ship all normal "personal possessions" to a set weight. What I could not send was car parts.

So, I shipped a very heavy box of kitchen goods, aka a 4 cylinder cast iron engine block.

 

Modern cars track you, and your driving habits. Modern TV track you and record what you say in your home. Scanner/programmer I use at work reports every usage to the seller, as it is used. (Even records where the job is).
RF chip readers track your credit cards within stores and matched to cameras tell every move you make on site. I-pass reads and charges you for every usage of a toll road, again by RF chips.
Lots of things are tracking your movements, each and every day.

 

Oh man....I'll have to get back to riding my pre millennium back pedal brake bicycle....they didn't have RF chips back in the day, during the '56 Hungary uprising.

 

I know, just had a couple of hungry cows dogging me till I put out some hay. I guess they were from the NSA < Nearsighted Smelly Animals >.

But I doubt the hay was bugged and the Tractor certainly wasn't

 

Could have been.,don't trust them cows . a lot of heavy equipment is also GPS controlled, such as earth movers, bull dozers, graders, tractors. This allows for proper grading over large scale, and straight crop rows. Some of the really big stuff has no humans inside at all, controlled just like an RC car.

 

So are you suggesting I don't know squat about my cows or my Tractor>

 

No, I said nothing about your cows or your tractor, specifically. (A jest on the cows) I know you know cows quite well.

 

That's good, my Tractor is older than you.

 

Good tools last a long time, with proper maintenance.