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I've thought about that a fair a lot recently myself, and came to a different conclusion, but like yours as a counterpoint. What I've been considering was going

I've thought about that a fair a lot recently myself, and came to a different conclusion, but like yours as a counterpoint. What I've been considering was going analog and writing down how to get to the few places I've kept my secrets and employing something like a Yubikey to access an admin account on my computer and paper instructions in an envelope in the family safety deposit box. It's not a complex as a two-person thing I read about once, but seems like a nice compromise where I can still feel like I'm protected, but the nuclear keys exist if someone ever needed them. Where do you draw the line around data that needs to be discovered? I'm thinking about instructions to access things like bank accounts or such that they may or may not already have access to, where I'd want them encrypted but accessible. Not that I've got secret Cayman accounts or anything, but financials are usually things i want heavily encrypted, but do want family access to in case of the worst.

sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I normally think of financials as things that don't need to be heavily encrypted, because we have laws limiting liability in case financial information is stolen and misused. What makes you feel it needs encryption?
- scarface74 8y ago
  Not in all cases and even if thier are legal remedies it takes months to clear it up and while you are clearing up the effects of the fraud, the person who has stolen your identity is committing new fraud until they get caught. I know people that were arrested for fraud because their identity was stolen and someone else was committing financial crimes in thier name. They always have to carry official police reports with them just in case they get arrested again.
- d0mine 8y ago
  If it were true then an identity theft would be called a bank robbery https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E
- eddieroger 8y ago
  Honestly, I don't know, I've just always held banking info as something that must be treated as such. That said, it's not like I don't use credit cards on the Internet, but something about someone getting my bank account numbers does worry me. Plenty of people who know me well know my mother's maiden name, for example, and those two pieces of info together could spell trouble. I'm also in the camp of unless it needs to be shared, may as well treat it as private, and that includes encryption.

sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago

I normally think of financials as things that don't need to be heavily encrypted, because we have laws limiting liability in case financial information is stolen and misused. What makes you feel it needs encryption?

scarface74 8y ago
Not in all cases and even if thier are legal remedies it takes months to clear it up and while you are clearing up the effects of the fraud, the person who has stolen your identity is committing new fraud until they get caught. I know people that were arrested for fraud because their identity was stolen and someone else was committing financial crimes in thier name. They always have to carry official police reports with them just in case they get arrested again.
d0mine 8y ago
If it were true then an identity theft would be called a bank robbery https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E
eddieroger 8y ago
Honestly, I don't know, I've just always held banking info as something that must be treated as such. That said, it's not like I don't use credit cards on the Internet, but something about someone getting my bank account numbers does worry me. Plenty of people who know me well know my mother's maiden name, for example, and those two pieces of info together could spell trouble. I'm also in the camp of unless it needs to be shared, may as well treat it as private, and that includes encryption.