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Preparing for missions in difficult places

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Re: Preparing for missions in difficult places

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maCDzP wrote: post #20
tuukkah wrote: post #17

If someone wants to do something like this, I hear the Red Cross has pools of technical experts for emergency response situations. Does anyone have experience about that?

I did training for the Red Cross to join the rooster. Never been deployed so I don’t have any field experience. I have friends whose whole career revolves around different deployments in hardship areas. From hearing people that have been in the field it sounds like a total shit show. But also very boring since you get to wait a lot. You also se a lot of traumatized people which I believe takes a toll on your mental h…

Alcohol, sex and a generous stock of dark humor.

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Post by airstrike »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #5
x86x87 wrote: post #4

This should be a TV show. Hire this person for a job in a remote place and after that hire another person to fuck him them and sabotage what they are trying to do. Film it -> Success

It's not as exciting as it look: you spend a lot of time waiting. And then working in difficult conditions. Then waiting. Then something fail and you look for a hack. Then you work. And you wait. And you come back. I did get into serious trouble once or twice, but over two decades, the average netflix factor is pretty low. Corruption and nature owning you is surprising the first few times, but after the 50th occurren…

> talented editing

that's what all these shows excel at

Re: Preparing for missions in difficult places

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Post by jrexilius »

It sounds like we overlapped in a few locations and missions ;-) One thing I would add to your list is extra USB drives with lotsa storage (>256GB), and at least one with a hardware write-protect switch (like the Kanguru ones). Collecting and sharing data is like collecting and sharing beer.. great way to make friends and build network effects. The Kanguru ones are nice when you need to share with a risky machine (cyber cafe, hotels, etc.).

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Post by resolutebat »

Interesting read. As a former 100% travel road warrior in semi-exotic places (data centers in developing countries), I'm very surprised he's checking in bags though, that's just asking for trouble. I presume it's the big hunting knife that makes this unavoidable, but is this really that necessary?

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Post by dist-epoch »

resolutebat wrote: post #25

Interesting read. As a former 100% travel road warrior in semi-exotic places (data centers in developing countries), I'm very surprised he's checking in bags though, that's just asking for trouble. I presume it's the big hunting knife that makes this unavoidable, but is this really that necessary?

The knife is probably to deter someone messing with you thinking you're an easy target.

Re: Preparing for missions in difficult places

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Post by aaron695 »

A small chili sauce

eSIM

32000 mAh is a limit on battery packs (in SE Asia, other countries/layovers maybe lower).

If yours is larger I'd consider buying one where you can remove the label and replace it with a lower number (I wouldn't have no label). They were reading labels when I last went through.

Powerstrip - with protection.

Obviously a universal power adapter and USB. You'll always be in multiple countries with layovers and stuff.

I don't get people who have luggage vs. backpack.

Bribe/emergency money, inc lower dominations.

As they hint, a VPN in case you have to do banking etc (so your IP is in your home country)

Similarly if using a burner phone log into everything once at home. And grab the local Grab (Uber) I had to APK one that was phone region locked. Know how to do this.

Water tablets/Steripen. Sometimes it's a PiTA to go buy more water. And alcohol gel, which I guess is standard for normies(vs. scared EuroTravelers) post COVID.

> A small wifi/ethernet access point. If the network is down, you build your own.

What's the best way to do this? Link to product? Can you connect something to your phone or laptop, or will that not work if you are Phone -> Laptop internet-ing

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