Unplug everything before the shutdown. Disconnect from the Internet for the entire day beforehand.
Don't let them force install anything.
Buy some metal pipe - a connector with two male ends and a couple end-caps. Put a flash drive with the most important info and red-pills you have in it and bury it 4 feet under. Don't seal with anything but metal, the thicker the better. (Faraday Cage).
All you really need to do is connect it to your house's grounding wire (or some houses will use the water line) or you can simply drive a 2' steel rod into the ground and attach a wire to it. Boom, grounded.
A "true" faraday cage, I believe, is charged constantly to prevent any signals from going in/out of it, but I figure the biggest real risk is an EMP burst, which grounding the metal casing should protect against
Unplug everything before the shutdown. Disconnect from the Internet for the entire day beforehand.
Don't let them force install anything.
Buy some metal pipe - a connector with two male ends and a couple end-caps. Put a flash drive with the most important info and red-pills you have in it and bury it 4 feet under. Don't seal with anything but metal, the thicker the better. (Faraday Cage).
You don't even need to bury it if you ground the pipe.
How does one go about grounding something like that?
All you really need to do is connect it to your house's grounding wire (or some houses will use the water line) or you can simply drive a 2' steel rod into the ground and attach a wire to it. Boom, grounded.
A "true" faraday cage, I believe, is charged constantly to prevent any signals from going in/out of it, but I figure the biggest real risk is an EMP burst, which grounding the metal casing should protect against