Would you store sensitive data on Google Drive?

LadyDee

Presumably you have a Will op? Why not place a copy of all the details in a sealed envelope with your solicitor, to be opened at your death and details to be communicated to each named person? Too simplistic in this day and age perhaps? Or maybe in a safety deposit box at your bank? In the latter case if anything changes then you would be able to replace it with up to date details.

JustAnotherSaver

LadyDee wrote: »

Presumably you have a Will op? Why not place a copy of all the details in a sealed envelope with your solicitor, to be opened at your death and details to be communicated to each named person? Too simplistic in this day and age perhaps? Or maybe in a safety deposit box at your bank? In the latter case if anything changes then you would be able to replace it with up to date details.

I forget the number of times this year that there's been a change with at least one of us. Me, my wife, my mother, brother, sister.

New regular savers, new standing orders put in place, accounts matured and closed, new accounts and cards opened etc etc. I'd forever be needing to get in touch and update which may or may not cost. Even if i could update via a solicitor for free, it's still faff.



What i want is for them to just be able to access easily what they need to, as up to date as it possibly can be (in theory it should be 100% accurate unless i was to die seconds after an account matured :rotfl:).

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The short answer is i would, but it will have to be encrypted with a long password.

The long answer is, tou never know where any of yhe cloud bits are stored. Cloud means someone elses computer. That company may go under and the servers sold, t&c changed, or a govenment back door that forbids the company from informing it clients that it shares. Then there are disgruntled employees and hackers too.

Peter999_2

I use OneDrive for confidential stuff, but encrypt everything on it through BoxCryptor.

JustAnotherSaver

This encryption malarkey...


I've just (today) discovered that within Excel and within Word (both actual MS programs, not the Google Sheets & Documents) i can password protect the file. I've discovered how to within Word & Excel put 2 layers of passwords on - to make it read only and to make it possible to edit.


Now i could upload these files direct to Google Drive and someone like me wouldn't be able to get in to them if i tried my hardest.


How secure are they though in that state? I don't mean getting in to the realms of Google going bust, because let's say they get stored in Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and a USB stick at both addresses.



And we don't have any tornados.


So how safe are they with the programs password on there? Or would you encrypt them further with another program?

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JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

...So how safe are they with the programs password on there? Or would you encrypt them further with another program?

So many things have backdoors and secondary keys that you have to encrypt using someone elses encryption. For most stuff I use 7zip, but for secure purposes use veracrypt. Would not trust bitlocker or any tpm chip encryption on their own.

JustAnotherSaver

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So many things have backdoors and secondary keys that you have to encrypt using someone elses encryption. For most stuff I use 7zip, but for secure purposes use veracrypt. Would not trust bitlocker or any tpm chip encryption on their own.

See this guy

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> that's about how green i am when it comes to all this. This is fresh on me today.


So what's this tpm thing? And what's the difference between this encryption that has you giving the thumbs up to some of it but not other bits?

DigForVictory

Microsoft password protection is a start but it is a baby step compared to a Third Party algorithms which might not be immediately back door accessible to google & those who trawl it looking for bank info.

There is a hazy case to be made for keeping this data on an iphone which is harder to get into legally but for what you are doing (& I have to say taking some eye watering risks with, even if your family do know-and-appreciate) so in all honesty if you do go under a bus tomorrow, better to have a sheet of paper stashed somewhere.

As that way only your family know they have to go hunting & the perverse imps who hack for the thrills will rarely figure a bit of paper.

But then I am wildly paranoid about leaving bank data on digital devices that I can't put a black & decker through.
You and yours may feel differently.

mchale

I cant see any problem why you wouldn't, after all you can give some 1 a cheque and that's got all the info on it.

dipsomaniac

So much paranoia on here. How many people above handed over their debit/credit card to someone else when paying for something