mbork_pl on Ask HN: Suggestions for a document with passwords etc. in case sth happens to me

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If I'd go that route, why not include that (encrypted) file on the drives themselves?

Avoid clouds, cloud accounts, any system you do not control as they can be hacked, go out of business, lose your data, etc...

Yes, that is obvious, but still a great point. I'd probably use my VPS for that (maybe even two of them for redundancy).

Bender 1y

why not include that (encrypted) file on the drives themselves?

That is what I was trying to convey. Both unencrypted instructions for where to get 7-zip, the encrypted file, and hints to what "family password" means, replicated to multiple thumb drives in the event one fails or gets corrupted. If they are using windows they may not even need to download 7-zip but one never knows.

    D:\ dir
    encryptd.7z
    README.txt

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