Sites are places where you can store large amounts of stuff securely.

The 5th kit line is obviously a step up from the large mobile kit of line 4. So level 5 items are considered essentially immobile, stored, at least until broken down into lower kit lines. But the title "Storage" is something of a misnomer as being immobile does not nessesarily mean inactive.

While 5th Line kit could well refer to a geocache of food and equipment, or a massive shipping container containing a whole vehicle, it can also mean kit that must be used in a set-up environment. This could be an office, a kitchen, a workshop, a perminant base of operations, a home or a business.

The same considerations come into it however, as with other kit lines. What is it meant to do? How well is it maintained? How secure is it?

Obviously this is where the subject begins to divide into specifics, as remotely stored items will probably have less active security, so techniques will differ. So the first broad division comes in the form of Remote and Local Storage.

Remote Storage

Storage Containers

Geocaches

Safe Deposit boxes 

Local Storage

Your Home

Your Office

Your Workshop

Office Setup

Setting Up An Office

Needful Things

• Networking
• Office Supplies
• Desks
• Couches
• Chairs
• Tables
• Power Supplies
• Site Security

SITESEC: Site Security

Site Security: The Achilles Heel

The best network COMSEC is easily compromised by an intruder or infiltrator who gets physical access to trusted systems. Numerous local exploits allow someone at the keyboard to escalate priveleges on systems that are secure from network attack. A hardware or software keystroke logger can compromise passwords typed by users. A network sniffer can expose internal communications. A rootkit could do almost limitless damage.

Site security defenses and intrusion detection cannot be ignored. Physical compromise has to be included in a COMSEC strategy. Ask yourself, "What if they got ahold of the GPG private key file?" before you entrust something life-and-death to an encrypted message.

Break-ins are a concern for stored gear.

Physical Security

Site Evaluation

Entrances & Exits

First thing you do in any new space is scope out the ins and outs. How can intruders infiltrate and how can you escape and evade? The door you want to make sure that you have an established code with

Locks

Lockpicking is

Low Profile Discourages Robbery

Eliminating threats by limiting temptations is the way to go.

Windows

Windows are not walls. Every window is a potential entrance and exit. Window locks are only going to stop a casual intrusion attempt (See threat categories below.)

 

Security Policy

Guests

Have a written guest policy.

• Guests sign in with some kind of identification, as much as you are paranoid
• Preapproved guests

Guests

• Watching untrusted guests

There will be events that are open to the public or generally attract an audience that needn't be immediately cleared. For these more open-house events, as long as there are staff on duty everything.

Narc

A Narc is an undercover security person pretending to be off the street.

Trust Network

Once you are identified, verified and trusted, you are in.

• Empowerment Card
• Clearance

 

 

Threat Categories

There's a big difference between a casual criminal looking to score some tweak barter and a motivated assailant who will stop at nothing to get in and kill you.

Insurance

Backup

Security Systems

 

LiveSpace Kit

GENERAL

1. waste receptacles [main(kitchen), bathroom]
2. broom/dustpan
3. mop/bucket
4. spongers/scrubbers

 

BATHROOM

1. shower curtain/rings
2. towels
3. plunger
4. toilet brush

 

KITCHEN

 

1. pots/pans [skillet, dutch oven, saucepan]
2. silverware [forks, spoons, knives]
3. kitchen knives [chef's knife, paring knife, bread knife]
4. dishware [bowls, cups, plates, saucers]

 

COMMON ROOM

1. seating
2. work surface