{"id":22485,"date":"2017-01-13T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22485"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:21:48","slug":"top-ten-ways-to-blow-your-operational-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22485","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Ways To Blow Your Operational Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/top-ten-ways-blow-operational-security\/\">Top Ten Ways To Blow Your Operational Security<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-info\"><strong>1. Start a survival\/prepper blog<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/man_with_a_megaphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Top ten ways to blow your operational security Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/man_with_a_megaphone.jpg\" alt=\"1x1.trans Top ten ways to blow your operational security\" width=\"210\" height=\"168\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a>Sometimes, I think that there are as many \u201csurvival blogs\u201d and \u201cdoomsday prepper\u201d sites as there are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/preppers-checklist\/\">preppers<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 why\u00a090% of people\u00a0that\u2019s been prepping over a week feel that they have to start a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/\">survival blog<\/a>\u201d is beyond me. There are thousands of such sites online already, and most get little or no traffic and it\u2019s a sure way to blow your operational security.<\/p>\n<p>And to make matters worse the more popular a blog or website gets the less secure the owner is. Trust me, you can use a \u201cpen name\u201d\u00a0 or list your location as somewhere \u201cwest of the rock mountains\u201d but if you run a blog and the federal government becomes interested they will have no problem finding out who is behind it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read a lot of comments from folks expressing concerns about reading or commenting on such sites \u2013 but really, if they start\u00a0rounding up\u00a0\u201dsurvivalist\u201d and \u201cpreppers\u201d who do you think will be first on their list? Yep, that\u2019s right\u2026 preppers with blogs and youtube channels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Telling your neighbors who aren\u2019t already preppers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We all know that long-term survival takes a community,\u00a0after all, no one survivor can know or do everything needed themselves. We need the labor, skills, companionship and protection that is offered\u00a0by a group. Unfortunately, most people aren\u2019t prepared\u00a0and will try to take what you have if they need it and know that you have it. And that includes your neighbors \u2013 It\u2019s best to keep your mouth shut for now, then see how they react after the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/idioms.thefreedictionary.com\/the+balloon+goes+up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">balloon goes up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Ten Ways To Blow Your Operational Security 1. Start a survival\/prepper blog Sometimes, I think that there are as many \u201csurvival blogs\u201d and \u201cdoomsday prepper\u201d sites as there are\u00a0preppers\u00a0\u2013 why\u00a090% of people\u00a0that\u2019s been prepping over a week feel that they have to start a \u201csurvival blog\u201d is beyond me. There are thousands of such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14672,1064,1065,648,14673,650],"class_list":["post-22485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-m-d-creekmore","tag-operational-security","tag-opsec","tag-preparations","tag-prepper-blog","tag-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22486,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485\/revisions\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}