Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness) on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2023–2025.
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Deviant Ollam gives a long talk on risk and preparedness: get a lawyer, passport, locksmith and other resources before you need them. It covers practical steps to build defenses against serious problems in life.
Recommended as a thorough preparedness talk, and cited for specifics such as lawyers, password managers and gun ownership.
“it's worth an hour of your time.”
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Deviant Ollam recently did a talk covering this, entitled "lawyer, passport, locksmith, gun. a talk about risk and preparedness". ▶ this video I don't have a tl;dr, but it's worth an hour of your time.
in “Ask HN: What do you put in a “in case of death” file?” · View on HN
Yeah, 100% this. Deviant Ollam talks about something like this (though maybe a bit more high stakes (maybe not)) in his talk here about risk preparedness I found really interesting: ▶ this video
in “FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages” · View on HN
The whole topic reminds me of Deviant Ollam's talk "Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun." ( ▶ this video ) He spends a fair amount of time talking about getting his queer and trans friends interested in guns. I suspect this has been the trend for a few years, at least. He includes a quote that is rather salient: "If you do not have the means of violence, you aren't peaceful; you're harmless."
in “More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ say they're buying guns out of fear” · View on HN
~120 firearms for every 100 citizens? [link] [link] > Nearly Half The World's Civilian Guns Are In The U.S. ▶ this video
in “GSA Eliminates 18F” · View on HN
> So someone on your team should use a password manager. I mean, you all should, of course Yeah, everyone who has any kind of online account should! It's number one on Ollam's preparedness checklist. ▶ this video
in “Nontraditional Red Teams” · View on HN
> The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons For anyone wondering how this will hurt people (even more), I recommend looking up Kara Sternquist. Deviant Ollam had a talk going into it [1] and posted a recent update [2]. [1] ▶ this video [2] [link]
in “” · View on HN
Depending on whose advice you value, Deviant Ollam has a video on YouTube entitled "Lawyer, Passport, Locksmith, Gun"[1] where he makes the argument that yeah, you probably should have a lawyer as part of a broader personal risk-reduction strategy. (I understand folk might take particular issue with that last as part of "risk reduction", but I hope that doesn't detract from the earlier parts of the strategy) [1]: ▶ this video
in “How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech” · View on HN