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#266412 - 01/06/14 07:52 AM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: TeacherRO]
Bingley Offline
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I like the name. I am guessing Shomer-Tec got a boost after the Big Lebowski came out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPo9OBrIOi4

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#266443 - 01/07/14 03:20 PM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: acropolis5]
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Originally Posted By: acropolis5
brandtb, I bought mine from Shomer-Tec. Go to the site and enter, Escape/ travel Belt, in the search box. That brings it up. I confirmed this, just before writing this reply.


Thank you!

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#266450 - 01/07/14 06:24 PM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: TeacherRO]
wileycoyote Offline
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Registered: 03/01/11
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Loc: north central west TX
cash is king.

towns out here are often a hundred miles or more between. recently my neighbors were traveling thru a good-size town, stopped for the night and found in the morning that power was out in the whole town. credit cards were worthless. without cash they couldn't have purchased fuel to leave.

moral: always carry a few hundred in your wallet or anywhere else you like (preferably in 20 dollar bills)

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#266512 - 01/11/14 10:24 AM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: TeacherRO]
quick_joey_small Offline
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Registered: 01/13/09
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I loved the BBC reporters John Simpsons 'get out of jail' phrase that magically solved beauracratic problems in the third world: " we are rich and willing to pay". :-)
qjs

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#266627 - 01/16/14 04:35 PM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: TeacherRO]
TeacherRO Offline
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Other places to stash handy cash; keychain, jacket pocket, car, lunch bag...

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#266874 - 01/26/14 03:25 PM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: hikermor]
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Originally Posted By: hikermor
Something much cheaper, but still effective is the money belt made by Eagle Creek. Nylon, 1 1/4" with a plastic buckle and a zippered compartment. Cost is about 1/3 the Blackscout. For me, it is a regular item when traveling.
I had one; the plastic buckle broke. Actually I think I then brought a new one, and the buckle broke on that too. It was a while ago, so maybe they've improved. I was wearing it every day, not just on holidays.

Originally Posted By: LesSnyder
...some crisp $20s, a set of orders with a TSCW notation, and a DIY microfiche taken with some slide film of your US passport and GI ID card,
Nowadays a microSD card will fit, and can contain vast amounts of data. Think insurance documents as well as ID, and photographs of your loved ones. You can also get SD-to-USB adaptors that are small enough that you won't notice one packed in a bag.

Of course paper backup is good for the essentials.
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#266904 - 01/27/14 06:37 PM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: TeacherRO]
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+1 on the microSd card. And its worth learning how to encrypt the data.

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#266907 - 01/27/14 09:41 PM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: TeacherRO]
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Originally Posted By: TeacherRO
+1 on the microSd card. And its worth learning how to encrypt the data.


There's a lot of commercial encryption out there that's very poor. For example, it's trivially easy to crack passwords for many encrypted ZIP files. I'm a big fan of TrueCrypt, and it's free.

Make sure to use strong passwords with whatever encryption you use, and keep those passwords secure.


Edited by chaosmagnet (01/27/14 09:42 PM)
Edit Reason: early-onset dementia

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#267268 - 02/10/14 02:40 PM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: chaosmagnet]
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7-Zip uses AES with a 256-bit key. That's pretty good. I use it because the compression is helpful. When I tried using TrueCrypt for general backup, I had trouble fitting what I needed into a 4GB volume, and anything bigger wouldn't be accepted by the microSD card (because they use FAT).
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#267302 - 02/12/14 12:06 AM Re: Money not in your wallet [Re: Brangdon]
Eugene Offline
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Originally Posted By: Brangdon
7-Zip uses AES with a 256-bit key. That's pretty good. I use it because the compression is helpful. When I tried using TrueCrypt for general backup, I had trouble fitting what I needed into a 4GB volume, and anything bigger wouldn't be accepted by the microSD card (because they use FAT).


I classified my data and the only things that really need encrypted fit in a small volume. You could easily separate into multiple smaller volumes or format the microSD in ext rather than FAT.

I used a small volume to make syncing to my phone easier, EDS lite will open a truecrypt volume, the OpenDocument or AndrOpenoffice to read the files.

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