In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:18:33 +0000, John Hall <
john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
In message <XnsB108EDFD1FC03auricauricauricauric@135.181.20.170>,
Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> writes
micky wrote:
How to store important data while traveling where a burglar or robber
won't be able to read it.
<snip>
You could always just put them in an encrypted .zip file.
My thought too. That should be enough to defeat an ordinary robber, who >doesn't have unusual IT expertise and who doesn't want to put in a lot
of time and effort for doubtful rewards.
That's what I ended up doing. LibreOffice Writer has an option when
saving, a checkbox below the file name iirc, that will encrypt the file.
To get it back, just click on it in a file manager abd put in your
password.
I extracted from one mailbox all the items dealing with money, and
made a one line entry for each, which I saved, encrypted.
And I extracted one "email" where I keep notes about everything
including credit cards and made that another file similarly.
I deleted the saved password for paypal.
I should not have said what I did about crime in Guatemala. I personally noticed none of it, and there were times I walked around at night,
except I read about the murder of a woman 9 months ago. 10 years ago
there was a big spurt of crime but it's tapered off a lot, and mostly
would be pickpockets at crowded tourist areas or on crowded chicken
buses, and some robberies, maybe armed robberies, outside of bars. I
don't go to bars. Not only that, January is the quietest month in
Guatemala, that is, fewest tourists, which is strange since it's
probably the coldest month in the USA. It is always 51 to 80 in
Guatemala, night and day. Even at Rio Dulce and Livingston, which are
at sea level, it was not very hot. And even the cheapest hotel rooms
have AC or a fan. And the summer months are the rainy ones. I only
saw in 21 days an hour of light rain. My hotels with bath cost between
$23 and 70. There are Marriots for over 100, but I was trying to save
money and partially recreate my first trip, 53 years ago.
So it really was not especially needed to to encrypt the stuff I did,
but OTOH, I should do that wherever I go, crime or not. Always possible
to lose the laptop. My credit card numbers are in it, disguised as
phone numbers, with 2-letter labels. I think a hacker would not find
them, but a guy with the whole laptop might.
The car was the most expensive, the insurance was more than the car
itself. IIRC 1400 dollars for 21 days, for a subcompact, I think, a
toyota yaris**, although it was plenty big enough. Traffic is terrible, streets are very narrow, hills and curves constantly outside of the
cities, they weave in and out and must have come within 2 inches of my
car many times. Yet, I got not a scratch, they refunded my full $650
deposit. (The insurance covered dents but not scratches!) I drove 1200
miles in 21 days.
Because streets in Guatemala City and elsewhere are old and narrow and
often one-way, using google navigation saves enormous time. Might drive
around for hours without it. Of course that worked even before I got a
local sim card. Recommend Claro instead of Tigo, or maybe roaming is
not that expensive, I thought it was.
Gas was I think a little cheaper than here. Electricity is 110v with
the same receptacles as the US. All were 3-prong. I brought a 15 foot
extension cord and a 10 foot charging cable so in one room with only a receptacle in the bathroom, I still had length enough to reach anywhere.
I think new extension cords use heavier insulation than in the 60's so I
bring an extension cord I've had since then. Lamp cord with replaced
ends. I brought a 3-prong to 2-prong converter for the laptop power
supply, but I forgot and brought a new one, where I had not ground down
the wide prong to make it narrow enough for the old extension cord.
Fortunately it still went into the narrow end of the cord, with the
ground plug sticking out. And there was still room on the sides for the
phone charger and the provided fan, in the room that had only one
receptacle.
Should have bought and brought a fast phone charger. Didn't appreciate
that until this trip. But I always had enough except one time I had to
stop reading the news at dinner.
Set Free Alarm Clock when I had to be up, and used Multitimer (url on
request), to turn the sound and screen off with a 2-hour timer when
falling asleep. It has other features too.
**What the heck is a yaris.
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