Precautionary measures
Oct. 27th, 2008 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynJust some I came up with off the top of my head...
1) If you knew that 48 hours from now you'd wake up to your place of residence on fire, and would lose all your possessions as a result, what documents would you need to claim your insurance and start rebuilding? Do you have copies of those located somewhere outside the house? If there's something truly irreplaceable, have you considered moving it to a safe deposit box*?
1a) Do you have a plan for getting you and your family out of your house in under 30 seconds in the event of a fire? Assume the main entryway is blocked. Are you sure all your smoke alarms are working?
2) If your computer was stolen, do you have any personally identifying information - credit card #s, passwords, etc. - stored on it that you'd wished a stranger didn't have? Are they behind some kind of password protection?
3) If your computer crashed today and was unrecoverable, what files do you absolutely need? Are they backed up in multiple places? What files would you just miss - pictures, email, bookmarks, etc. - and have you got them backed up somewhere?
4) If you store all your email or blog posts with an online service - LJ, Yahoo, Google, AOL, etc. - do you have the info somewhere you'd need to allow the service to verify your ownership if they lock you out of your account? For example, Google requires (almost) that you know your account creation date as well as what Google products you use and the date you started using each. Also, have you researched whether they have a phone number you can reach customer service at if you can't get a response to your emails?
Anyone else have others than come to mind?
* - with the caveat that nothing is truly 100% secure...
1) If you knew that 48 hours from now you'd wake up to your place of residence on fire, and would lose all your possessions as a result, what documents would you need to claim your insurance and start rebuilding? Do you have copies of those located somewhere outside the house? If there's something truly irreplaceable, have you considered moving it to a safe deposit box*?
1a) Do you have a plan for getting you and your family out of your house in under 30 seconds in the event of a fire? Assume the main entryway is blocked. Are you sure all your smoke alarms are working?
2) If your computer was stolen, do you have any personally identifying information - credit card #s, passwords, etc. - stored on it that you'd wished a stranger didn't have? Are they behind some kind of password protection?
3) If your computer crashed today and was unrecoverable, what files do you absolutely need? Are they backed up in multiple places? What files would you just miss - pictures, email, bookmarks, etc. - and have you got them backed up somewhere?
4) If you store all your email or blog posts with an online service - LJ, Yahoo, Google, AOL, etc. - do you have the info somewhere you'd need to allow the service to verify your ownership if they lock you out of your account? For example, Google requires (almost) that you know your account creation date as well as what Google products you use and the date you started using each. Also, have you researched whether they have a phone number you can reach customer service at if you can't get a response to your emails?
Anyone else have others than come to mind?
* - with the caveat that nothing is truly 100% secure...
