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I am working toward a setup where I am certain my critical data will not be lost due to broken phones or house fire. I'm also working on a strategy for death, a
by unethical_ban 4y ago
I am working toward a setup where I am certain my critical data will not be lost due to broken phones or house fire. I'm also working on a strategy for death, amnesia, etc. for my friends to help if I ever forget my own password or pass away.
My strategy (some parts still being implemented):
* Use a password manager (Keepass)
* For anything 2FA, it either can use Authy (has backup service) or has backup codes.
* Authy backup code and all other backup codes are in password manager
* Password manager and all important digital data is stored in AWS Glacier
To be implemented:
* Instructions for disaster recovery printed and stored in AWS
* Master password to Keepass written in envelope in my house
* AWS accounts, S3 buckets and Shamirs secret sharing configured so that any 2/5 friends or family can login to AWS, get a copy of my safe, and together unlock it in case of death or disaster
AWS Glacier Deep Archive costs about $1/TB/month and is highly redundant, so for cold storage and DR is perfect for this. Shamirs secret sharing is a cool tech for breaking up secret data between people to allow the reconstruction of a secret key.
Links:
https://keepass.info/ https://keepass.info/ - cross platform password safe
https://authy.com/ https://authy.com/ - Free 2FA with backup service
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/ - Info on AWS Deep Glacier
https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/ - Great tool for backing up from local to any kind of cloud storage - I use it for encrypted uploads to AWS Glacier Deep Archive
https://iancoleman.io/shamir/ https://iancoleman.io/shamir/ - Web tool for Shamir Secret Sharing