@ataraxia937 Put in a safe deposit box, I guess. Or use something like Veeam (free for backing up 10 devices or else) that can encrypt. I’d put encrypted contents in Deep Glacier or something too for a failsafe if it’s that important.
@digicana @ataraxia937 Give anybody you know an encrypted backup on a USB stick. Or put the stick in a sealed bag and bury it somewhere. Or do both.
Put it in the cloud, and a week later you read the encryption has been broken. You will be so happy to have buried it instead of publicizing it.
@rudolf @ataraxia937 Okay I’m sorry, I can’t let that go. If the encryption is broken it doesn’t matter who you give it to, it’s broken. And if AES is broken, people will be far too busy decrypting every other secret in existence to bother with your pirated Naruto episodes.
@rudolf @ataraxia937 Use good encryption implementation with a strong pass phrase (use a generator to create 50 random character/number/symbols or use diceware), and you can put that blob anywhere and not worry. Literally post the nuclear codes to reddit and still sleep well at night. That’s maths, baby.
@rudolf @ataraxia937 If AES is suddenly broken you‘ve got waaaaaaaaay bigger problems than your cloud backup. As in the world might literally collapse overnight. Your thoughts then would be toward procuring shotguns and canned food, not stressing about your cloud backup that is probably gone along with the cloud provider
@digicana @ataraxia937 We are talking about a backup strategy here. Not Armageddon. If a EMP or a gamma flash occur, my USB stick is fried. But that is off topic.
@rudolf @ataraxia937 I do not think you understand what I am saying. If AES encryption is (easily) compromised, one of the fundamental underpinnings of our entire technological society will have been destroyed. A disruption like that would result in mass chaos. Nobody would be looking at your back ups, because they would be too busy trying to steal all the money from all the banks in the world
@digicana @ataraxia937 If the encryption is broken, the you gave it to millions in the cloud, to the one you know, or nobody if you buried it.