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It doesn't even scale. This assumes you're the only one with PDFs to share. What if you have siblings and other relatives, and all of them are tech-savvy -- if

by the_af 4y ago

It doesn't even scale. This assumes you're the only one with PDFs to share. What if you have siblings and other relatives, and all of them are tech-savvy -- if they aren't now, in the future they will be -- and want to store the PDFs with your parents. What, are your parents going to be running a PDF storage service, classified by person? That's too much to ask of them (for most parents).

xtracto 4y ago
All these "rebutals" to the pdf approach sound like those infomercial TV ads where people have trouble doing normal day to day things. Like... mass enail the PDF to several members of the family and be done with it. Can it happen that 5 people at once lose their email access? Sure, but the probability is minuscule.
- the_af 4y ago
  The comment I was replying to was about physical paper copies, not emails. Distributing digital copies of your password store to your friends and relatives could maybe work. Be sure you're using a really strong password (that you can also remember by heart), because you cannot trust each friend will store the file responsibly away from prying eyes. Remember the scenario: - You lost access to your recovery codes and any handwritten notes, so you better remember the master password by heart. - But this master password better be really strong, because each of your N friends you distributed your files to is a potential leak to hackers and thieves. - (Tangentially related: remember you have no authenticator either, so your password store better include recovery codes, otherwise without 2FA you're screwed)
mrtranscendence 4y ago
> What, are your parents going to be running a PDF storage service, classified by person? I mean, it's a piece of paper. They could write the name of the person on the paper, keep them alphabetized, and store and search through hundreds of them easily (let's assume they're rabbits with hundreds of children). There may be all sorts of problems with this approach but I don't think burdening parents with paper storage is one of them. Edit: of course, if they were rabbits I wouldn't trust them with paper storage. Rabbits are notorious chewers.
- the_af 4y ago
  I dunno. I've already burdened my parents with plenty of things, and so have my siblings. I don't know that I want to make them responsible for storing random bits of paper they may or may not forget about.

by the_af 4y ago

xtracto 4y ago

All these "rebutals" to the pdf approach sound like those infomercial TV ads where people have trouble doing normal day to day things. Like... mass enail the PDF to several members of the family and be done with it. Can it happen that 5 people at once lose their email access? Sure, but the probability is minuscule.

the_af 4y ago
The comment I was replying to was about physical paper copies, not emails. Distributing digital copies of your password store to your friends and relatives could maybe work. Be sure you're using a really strong password (that you can also remember by heart), because you cannot trust each friend will store the file responsibly away from prying eyes. Remember the scenario: - You lost access to your recovery codes and any handwritten notes, so you better remember the master password by heart. - But this master password better be really strong, because each of your N friends you distributed your files to is a potential leak to hackers and thieves. - (Tangentially related: remember you have no authenticator either, so your password store better include recovery codes, otherwise without 2FA you're screwed)

mrtranscendence 4y ago

> What, are your parents going to be running a PDF storage service, classified by person? I mean, it's a piece of paper. They could write the name of the person on the paper, keep them alphabetized, and store and search through hundreds of them easily (let's assume they're rabbits with hundreds of children). There may be all sorts of problems with this approach but I don't think burdening parents with paper storage is one of them. Edit: of course, if they were rabbits I wouldn't trust them with paper storage. Rabbits are notorious chewers.

the_af 4y ago
I dunno. I've already burdened my parents with plenty of things, and so have my siblings. I don't know that I want to make them responsible for storing random bits of paper they may or may not forget about.