![]() Some sites that offer two factor also provide one time use reset codes – you have to save these and get a limited number. If you enable it you need to also consider redundancy. By now it’s common enough that you probably have the option for two factor authetication (gmail, your bank, etc).Good ones integrate with your phone and computer. The better ones will be able to export to standard formats for backup and portability. They can be a small pain to set up at first but it also forces you to organize and take stock of things. ![]() If you buy things online, do online banking/investing, pay bills online – You should really seriously consider a password manager.Even if digital preparedness isn’t essential to your survival scenarios, it can also be helpful for simple organization and maintenance until you have more important things to worry about (similar to financial preparation, where ideally you’ve got savings and retirement accounts in order – and use them as a base to build on your other preps in the event that your savings and retirement accounts don’t exist anymore for exigent reasons). Nothing will ever take the place of learned skills or reference material on printed paper (some digital media you can print out!), but in situations where you’ve prepared for power outages and have your food/water, shelter, and safety taken care of – information certainly can’t hurt. You can also think of Digital preparedness as a meta-prep, along the lines of financial-preparedness (of the mutual fund/savings/retirement account variety, rather than the gold/silver investing kind) – something that might help you along the way in anything short of a full-blown apocalypse. If you think of Preparation along the lines of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, digital preparedness might be a bit closer to the top in terms or rarity rather than urgency/importance (The base of the pyramid is *more* important than the top, remember) but in situations that fall short of a full grid-down disaster, information can be critical (you are reading this on a website, after-all!). Full disclosure: some of the staff here know more about this than I do (I’ll likely link shamelessly to their past affiliated sites…) I realize this is a niche topic but wanted to contribute where I could.
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