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Family 1Password for me + spouse, separate 1Password account for my elderly parent–in–law. I maintain paper copies of all keys. I back up (export) 1Password va
by epc 5y ago
Family 1Password for me + spouse, separate 1Password account for my elderly parent–in–law. I maintain paper copies of all keys.
I back up (export) 1Password vaults quarterly to an offline backup I maintain.
I maintain two small (1Tb) SSDs with digital copies/scans of all important documents, offline. Try to sync monthly. Store inside faraday bags inside fireproof (in theory) safes.
We both lie excessively when creating profiles for online accounts. Unless absolutely necessary we use a PO Box for addresses. We've both been online 30+ years and the amount of old, forgotten accounts that resurface in breaches and scams is disappointing, and yet not surprising. Our late dog continues to receive a lot of "growth hacking" spam from services that started after she died.
Everything important has multiple 2FA options enabled, avoiding SMS as much as possible.
All of our financial accounts use email addresses off an obscure domain name I manage, not our personal email addresses (which themselves are G Suite/WorkPlace/WorkSpace/Whatever accounts).
I review all financial accounts monthly to look for odd charges. The last serious fraud we experienced started as small (<$10) charges over several weeks, I guess testing the credit card information they'd gotten.
I just assume we'll get hacked at some point, instead of trying to make that impossible, I try to ensure that we have backups of everything (and a paper trail as necessary to prove who we are, though I'm not convinced the various automata at FAANG gang companies will believe any of that).
- zrail 5y agoHow do you find using GSuite (etc) for family accounts? I've been considering it for a bit but I'd love to hear about your experience.
- epc 5y agoIt’s a ridiculous pain in the ass made tolerable because we’re both tech industry dinosaurs. Initially it was the only way to get TOTP 2FA on a Gmail account which is why I switched and because of the way Google does Google things my spouse has a completely separate account (she was a Googler at the time though has now successfully escaped). For my MIL we set up G Suite because it was the easiest way to lock down her security settings and support her remotely. There is no G Suite “family” option, you’re either a business or an enterprise. For our purposes it’s been fine, but it’s overkill for the typical family or typical consumer. One definite downside is that G Suite accounts are not considered to be consumer accounts so you run into various Google services which either don’t work at all or work very differently. For the brief time we used Google Home it could not access either of our G Suite calendars (but somehow the Alexa could). Our Nest footprint exists in a separate world from our G Suite accounts. When we had YoutubeTV we had to use a separate GMail account because (at the time, I don’t know if this is still the case) …because G Suite accounts could not be used for YouTube TV.
- zrail 5y agoThanks!