An organization that may be beneficial to join is https://www.infragard.org/
It is a direct partnership between the FBI and
the private sector to protect the United States from threat. They share some
level of compartmentalized information with private citizens in exchange for
partnership and information collaboration from experts in the private sector
that cross many different disciplines. After undergoing a level of scrutiny with
a background check membership can be granted. I’ve been a member since the turn
of the century and have found it invaluable to my previous security practice.
http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach provides updated views of regulatory and non-regulatory
breaches of privacy data by multiple organizations that allow you to get a view
of trends.
http://www.dhs.gov/government-emergency-telecommunications-service-gets
gives a private citizen access to the resilient POTS (plain old telephone
services) in cases when the normal access trunks are overloaded or otherwise unavailable. You could dial from a normal payphone during a disaster and be able to complete a call where someone else is unable.
If you can show that you can provide necessary service during a national
disaster you will be assigned an access number.
5-14-14 Archive.org is a great place to visit if you want to see how a website appeared many years ago. For instance www.cnn.com has active page URL click-throughs that date back to 2007.
Archive.org is also a great reasoning point for convincing children and adults that once something is on the Internet it will always be there so circumspect is the way go.
