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Now that I'm a dad, I've been thinking more and more about preparing my family for the unknown. I'm not a paranoid or an alarmist (at least, I don't think I am, but that doesn't mean they're not after me...) but I do think that there's little excuse for not being prepared; certainly not when we've seen Tsunamis, Earthquakes, and Hurricanes in just the last year.

现在我已经是爸爸，我一直在考虑如何为家人准备未知的事物。 我不是一个偏执狂或危言耸听的人(至少，我不认为我是，但是那并不意味着他们不追随我……)，但我确实认为没有准备的借口不多； 肯定不是，仅在去年才看到海啸，地震和飓风。

Here's a good New Year's resolution and a great time to do it.

这是新年的好选择，也是实现这一目标的好时机。

Get prepared.

准备好。

Here's what I've done and what I'm doing. Thanks to Patrick Cauldwell (the most prepared fellow I know, a HAM Radio operator and CERT member, IMHO) for the spur into action.

这是我所做的和正在做的事情。 感谢Patrick Cauldwell (我认识的准备最充分的人，HAM广播运营商和CERT成员IMHO)促使该行动付诸实施。

Make an [encrypted] Emergency Getaway Drive

制作一个[加密的]紧急逃生驱动器

Everyone's got a few USB Thumbdrives around. My favorite is a 2GIG, but I really should get a smaller 128 that would fit on a keychain. There's a great article at the NYTimes that offers some pointers as to what you should save on your drive:

每个人都有一些USB拇指驱动器。 我最喜欢的是2GIG，但我确实应该得到一个较小的128，可以放在钥匙扣上。 NYTimes上有一篇很棒的文章，提供了一些有关应保存在驱动器上的内容的指针：

SCAN: Some important documents are on paper and you will want copies of them with you: tax returns for the last three years (Form 1040 is all you will need in an emergency), a recent pay stub, birth certificates, marriage license, the deed to your home and insurance policy pages that list your coverage. If you do not have a scanner or a printer with a flat scanner, take the pile of documents down to a copy center like Kinko's to scan. Record the image files on the U.S.B. drive. [NYTimes]

扫描：纸上有一些重要文件，您将需要它们的副本：过去三年的纳税申报表(紧急情况下只需要1040表格)，最近的工资单，出生证明，结婚证，契约到列出您的承保范围的房屋和保险政策页面。 如果您没有扫描仪或带平面扫描仪的打印机，请将一堆文件放到Kinko的复印中心进行扫描。 将图像文件记录在USB驱动器上。 [纽约时报]

In order to be secure, you'll want to make sure everything on your drive is encrypted. I use two programs to manage my data securely, one for passwords, and one for disks.

为了安全起见，您需要确保驱动器上的所有内容均已加密。 我使用两个程序安全地管理我的数据，一个用于密码，一个用于磁盘。

I've tried a million "password management" tools and the only one I've stuck with is Keith Brown's Password Minder. It meets all my criteria: It's lightweight, zero install, written in .NET, source is available, and stores its data in XML. The next step is to encrypt your files.

我已经尝试了上百万种“密码管理”工具，而我坚持使用的唯一工具是Keith Brown的Password Minder 。 它符合我的所有条件：它是轻量级的，零安装，用.NET编写，可以使用源并将其数据存储为XML。 下一步是加密文件。

Encrypt/Secure your Life

加密/保护您的生活

Now, to encrypt important data on a disk, there's a number of options. My favorite is a fantastic Open Source system called TrueCrypt. It's also open source, and offers a number of attractive features for use with removable drivers. It can be used without installation (meaning it can be run off the USB disk directly,) its data files are indistinguishable from random data. You can encrypt an entire volume, or mount a disk file. Personally, I'm a fan of the "single opaque file I can mount" way of thinking.

现在，要加密磁盘上的重要数据，有很多选择。 我最喜欢的是一个叫做TrueCrypt的出色的开源系统。 它也是开源的，并提供了许多与可移动驱动程序一起使用的吸引人的功能。 它无需安装即可使用(意味着可以直接在USB磁盘上运行)，其数据文件与随机数据是无法区分的。 您可以加密整个卷，也可以装入磁盘文件。 就个人而言，我是“我可以挂载的单个不透明文件”思想的支持者。

TrueCrypt can create a traveler disk that includes an autorun.inf that will make mounting your USB drive automatic upon insertion. For example it created this Autorun.inf:

TrueCrypt可以创建包含autorun.inf的旅行者磁盘，该磁盘将使USB驱动器在插入时自动安装。 例如，它创建了以下Autorun.inf：

[autorun]
open=TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe /q /a /e /m rm /v "\HanselmanPortable.tc"
shell=mount
action=Mount TrueCrypt Volume
shell\open\command=TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe /e /m rm /v "\HanselmanPortable.tc"
shell\open=TrueCrypt Start
shell\mount\command=TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe /q /a /e /m rm /v "\HanselmanPortable.tc"
shell\mount=TrueCrypt Mount
shell\dismount\command=TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe /q /d
shell\dismount=TrueCrypt Dismount All

[自动运行] 打开= TrueCrypt \ TrueCrypt.exe / q / a / e / m rm / v“ \ HanselmanPortable.tc” 外壳=安装action =安装TrueCrypt音量shell \ open \ command = TrueCrypt \ TrueCrypt.exe / e / m rm / v“ \ HanselmanPortable.tc” shell \ open = TrueCrypt开始shell \ mount \ command = TrueCrypt \ TrueCrypt.exe / q / a / e / m rm / v“ \ HanselmanPortable.tc” shell \ mount = TrueCrypt安装shell \ dismount \ command = TrueCrypt \ TrueCrypt.exe / q / d shell \ dismount = TrueCrypt全部卸载

This autorun.inf gives you a friendly right-click series of extensions even though TrueCrypt isn't installed on the host system (see picture at right). TrueCrypt totally fits the bill for encrypting my personal data. If I lost my USB disk I wouldn't feel that my personal security had been compromised. It also includes support for Linux.

即使没有在主机系统上安装TrueCrypt，此autorun.inf也会为您提供一系列友好的右键单击扩展名(请参见右图)。 TrueCrypt完全适合加密我的个人数据。 如果丢失了USB磁盘，我不会感到自己的人身安全受到了损害。 它还包括对Linux的支持。

Have at least Three Days of Food and Water

至少有三天的食物和水

The Red Cross sells a 3-day emergency preparedness kit in the form of a backpack. You can certainly put something together yourself from any home-supply store, and this is a nice form factor. We assembled two, one for each of our cars and we've put them in the trunks. Here's what they contain:

红十字会以背包的形式出售3天的应急准备包。 您当然可以在任何家庭用品商店中自行整理东西，这是一个不错的形式。 我们组装了两辆，每辆车一辆，然后将它们放在后备箱中。 它们包含的内容如下：

• Backpack 背包
• Battery Powered Flashlight (batteries included)电池手电筒(包括电池)
• Battery Powered Radio 电池供电的收音机
• Emergency Blanket紧急毯
• Food Bars (4,800 calories total) (~three Days of food)食物棒(总共4,800卡路里)(〜三天的食物)
• Work Gloves (one pair)工作手套(一对)
• Light Sticks (3 each one lasts 12 hours)荧光棒(每个3个，持续12小时)
• Moist Towelettes (6)湿纸巾(6)
• Breathing Mask 呼吸面罩
• Plastic Sheeting (10'x10') 塑料布(10'x10')
• Rain Poncho雨披风
• Personal First Aid Kit个人急救箱
• Roll of Duct Tape胶带卷
• Water (2 quarts) 水(2夸脱)
• Water Container (2.5 gallon)水容器(2.5加仑)
• Whistle 哨

While the plastic sheet and duct tape may seem alarmist if you assume they're for a gas attack from the commies, they would certainly help seal up broken windows in a car or home while we wait for the calvary. This pack is meant to be the "wait it out" pack. It would have made life a little more tolerable in New Orleans, I think, with food and water being less of a concern in the first 3-4 days.

如果您以为塑料板和胶带可能是由于煤气爆炸而引起警觉的，那么它们当然可以帮助密封汽车或房屋中破损的窗户，而我们却要等着受难。 这个包是“等待”包。 我认为，这会使新奥尔良的生活更加宽容，在头3-4天，食物和水就不再那么令人担忧了。

Coordinate

坐标

Patrick suggests that you have two points of coordination. The first is "where will we meet up if we're separated." This might be a local mall parking lot or a field behind your house. Have a place. Second, have a person, out of state, that you will both call to check in. That person can act as a router for the other two individuals in case the cell-phone or local photo networks are having trouble.

帕特里克建议您有两个协调点。 第一个是“如果我们分开，我们将在哪里见面”。 这可能是当地的购物中心停车场，也可能是房子后面的田地。 有地方其次，请一个状态不佳的人，您俩都将打电话来办理登机手续。在手机或本地照片网络出现问题的情况下，该人可以充当其他两个人的路由器。

Get a Safety Deposit Box or "3rd place"

获取保险箱或“第三名”

Find a safe "3rd place" that isn't home or work, and store backups and important documents there. I'm a fan of the Safety Deposit Box, a secure lock box at our local bank branch. It's much safer than having a safe in your home that would likely be carted off by thieves. However, while your papers or backups are at your home, waiting to be taken off-site, have a fire box that is rated to resist a house fire for at least an hour and confirm that it's of sufficient quality that the CDs won't melt inside.

找到一个不在家或不在工作的安全“第三名”，并在其中存储备份和重要文档。 我是我们本地银行分行的安全保险箱保险箱的粉丝。 这比在家里放一个可能被盗贼带走的保险箱要安全得多。 但是，当您的文件或备份在家中等待离开现场时，请准备一个可以防止房屋大火至少一个小时的火箱，并确认其质量足以使CD不会融化在里面。

Formalize your [Offsite] Backup Strategy

正式制定您的[异地]备份策略

Take your backups somewhere, perhaps to work, or preferably to your safety deposit box. Figure out a way to integrate it into your life. If you're already taking deposits to the bank monthly, take the backups with you.

将备份放在某个地方，也许可以工作，或者最好放在安全保管箱中。 找出将其融入生活的方法。 如果您已经每月向银行存款，请随身携带备份。

Start dropping a DVD/CD in the mail to your parents once a month. Use a standard CD mailer you can get at any office supply shop. Perhaps buy 12, plus stamps, and pre-address them to your family. Then, burn your TrueCrypt volume or encrypted files to a DVD/CD and mail it away as another offsite backup.

开始每月一次将DVD / CD放入您的父母的邮件中。 使用标准的CD邮件程序，您可以在任何办公用品店买到。 也许买12张邮票，然后预先寄给家人。 然后，将TrueCrypt卷或加密文件刻录到DVD / CD上，并作为另一个异地备份邮寄出去。

Photograph your Stuff

拍摄你的东西

This is one of those things that folks are always told to do, but never do. Now it's so easy, just do it. Take digital photos of all your important stuff, including macro (close up) photos of their serial and model numbers. Put them on the emergency drive as well along with scanned copies of your insurance policy.

这是人们总是被告知要做但从未做到的事情之一。 现在就这么简单，只需执行即可。 拍摄所有重要物品的数码照片，包括其序列号和型号的宏(特写)照片。 将它们连同扫描的保险单一起放在紧急驱动器上。

Alert folks of Medical Conditions and History if needed

必要时提醒人们病情和病史

If you've got a medical condition, have a bracelet or necklace at least. I've even debated tattooing "Diabetic. Allergic Penicillin" to a forearm, because these are the kinds of things that make life and death difference in a pinch.

如果您有健康状况，至少要戴一条手镯或项链。 我什至辩论过在前臂上纹身“糖尿病性过敏性青霉素”，因为这些都是使生死攸关的事情。

[Medicalert] sells a special USB flash drive on its Web site, www.medicalert.org, called the E-HealthKey for $85. SanDisk originally developed the product for the Army. Pop the flash drive into any computer and a screen flashes with your medical condition to alert emergency room personnel, for instance, to an allergy or your use of a pacemaker. [NYTimes]

[Medicalert]在其网站www.medicalert.org上出售一种特殊的USB闪存驱动器，称为E-HealthKey，售价为85美元。 SanDisk最初是为陆军开发该产品的。 将闪存驱动器插入任何计算机，屏幕上会显示您的医疗状况，以向急诊室工作人员发出警报，例如，过敏或起搏器使用。 [纽约时报]

Of course, this could be done yourself, also with an AutoRun.inf and a JPEG. The default image viewer would be launched, alerting folks to your condition.

当然，这也可以自己完成，也可以使用AutoRun.inf和JPEG。 将启动默认的图像查看器，提醒人们您的状况。

What are some other easy preparedness tips that you have?

您还有其他一些简单的准备技巧吗？

翻译自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/2006-resolution-prepare

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