Maybe this is a dumb question, but if you were preparing for the S to H the F, why would you give an interview and mention your name? Seems to me that thugs would then know where to go to steal supplies...bad OPSEC, if you ask me...
You are right, I wouldn’t do it, but I also doubt that ‘Thugs’ were hanging out at the meet or the would read a story or watch a program on prepping. The most dangerous people that you would have to worry about robbing you specifically for your ‘preps’ aren’t ‘Thugs’ its causal acquaintances, friends, neighbors and maybe even family who happen to know you ‘prep’.