Would you store sensitive data on Google Drive?

JustAnotherSaver

DigForVictory wrote: »

(& I have to say taking some eye watering risks with,

care to elaborate?

dipsomaniac wrote: »

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

I hand my card over to people i trust. A very small circle of family members who i know wont rob me.


I wouldn't give you for example any info to my bank details. Who are you? Could be the worlds biggest thief for all i know.

debitcardmayhem

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

care to elaborate?





I hand my card over to people i trust. A very small circle of family members who i know wont rob me.


I wouldn't give you for example any info to my bank details. Who are you? Could be the worlds biggest thief for all i know.

No that would be me

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JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

look a the Criticisms and Attack comments above link

stphnstevey

Be aware that Google drive only requires you enter password once and keeps open access on your device via cookies

Should your device get stolen or someone else get access to that device, the password is not needed

So if your phone gets stolen and your phone is accessible, so is your Google account

mchale

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

I wouldn't give you for example any info to my bank details. Who are you? Could be the worlds biggest thief for all i know.

So you have never paid for anything with a cheque?

JustAnotherSaver

mchale wrote: »

So you have never paid for anything with a cheque?

From the opening post, that was posted earlier this morning...

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

I know it's not really any different to the info that's on a cheque.

Heedtheadvice

....... i'm looking at mapping it all out, listing direct debits - so what its for, how much it is, how frequent etc, standing orders & just account details.......
......certainly bank and account names and numbers.

Aye, right, just what you include on a cheque!


Encryption is a start (stored with the appropriate solicitors?) Office passwords are very easy to crack. One of the biggest problems is relying on the cloud saving organsations and their associated risks; also you are acting informally as a trustee -suggest post a query about that on another part of the forum- and you need to ensure that (however you decide to store the data) if encrypted you make sure the individual encryption passwords etc are available to the owners and executors for others and you and probably not each other!


You can store the data in Excel and there are a lot of advantages to that such as the sharingyou have already mentioned and that it will track changes allowing a history to be produced of changes fecorded in the sheets. You really ought to know what and how to do it before you start otherwise you may make errors.


Can also be recorded in simple text files that are easy to manage but require a bit more legwork as chronological entries.
A database is the ideal tool but maybe overkill for your needs.

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mchale wrote: »

So you have never paid for anything with a cheque?

a cheque is a one off payment and the banks should check the signature anyway. cards are multi payments.

All my standing orders, Amazon and ebay are remote from home card. Everything I spec food wise, travel card, pub is cash, and I do not even know my pin number - use my passport at the bank for id verification

dipsomaniac

stphnstevey wrote: »

Be aware that Google drive only requires you enter password once and keeps open access on your device via cookies

Should your device get stolen or someone else get access to that device, the password is not needed

So if your phone gets stolen and your phone is accessible, so is your Google account

That's why devices have fingerprint/iris sensors PIN codes etc

Tom99

I use VeraCrypt on both laptop and the memory stick with its weekly back-up on.

Its very easy to use and does not delay you at all in opening/closing files.

Basically if anyone got hold of my laptop or my memory stick all the would find on either even if they searched the entire hard drive would be one file called say 'Tom's Files' or whatever I have chosen to call it. They will be able to see that the one file is 100GB so a pretty large file. That is all they will see and nobody could crack what's in that file unless they knew the password it is set up as.

When I boot up or insert the memory stick I take about 5 sec to enter the correct password. My laptop file is them 'mounted' as Drive Z and my memory stick is 'mounted' as Drive Y.

From then on Drive Z and Y operate exactly as if they were real Drives, I can see all of the folders and files I have saved. I also keep my Firefox and Thunderbird profile in these encrypted drives so that no one can look at my browsing history, saved password or any email information.

When I shut down the laptop or remove the memory stick the Z/Y drive is automatically dismounted and everything in the 100GB file is encrypted.