Posted: 2/7/2013 11:08:04 AM EDT
|
Since the boating accident happened and I had no inventory of my guns that were tragically lost at sea, I had been thinking of a way to know about such things in the future, should I ever be able to stand being in the presence of such evil icky devices and desire an inventory of such ickiness for insurance purposes should such tragedy at sea strike again.
Obviously you could write everything down on paper, time consuming, but it's worked for thousands of years. You could make a spreadsheet/doc/etc and store it on a computer. Both of these solve a problem like just remembering what you have, should you be totally berserk and have so many you can't keep track of them, or if you were broken in to and someone relieved you of the ickiness, but what if a fire or flood happened, I happen to live near the coast so a hurricane could cause problems to a locally stored inventory database. Of course you could take the paper and make a copy or back up the doc to a flash drive and physically store those off site, but there are issues with where to store these off site. You could go to a bank and get a safe deposit box, which I don't currently have so it would cost extra to do this, and whose to say the bank can't catch fire or be taken out by tornado or flood, my bank is only a few miles from me in the coastal region. I guess you could travel to some other bank several counties away which would up the security level from local disaster, but also ups the PITA and cost factory, plus time to update should you need to make a change so they would likely be wrong if you needed to make changes very often but didn't make it there. So I've considered, and at one time actually used, cloud storage to house the inventory, I use several every day like Dropbox and Evernote. This makes things easy, both have apps for phones and web access so it wouldn't matter if my computer exploded or the house burnt down, the database is backed up online and can be accessed from anywhere on other devices. You could even attach pics of the evil with serial number included, or even copies of receipts of purchase (and I have some question as to whether this is a good idea or not.) For some time I thought this was the best approach, it was easy and available, and best of all, free. <tinfoilhat>Now I want everyone to put on their tinfoil hats for a moment. There's a saying that goes roughly "If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product." My concern is, how smart is storing an exact inventory of evilness to a service like these? What would be the likelihood of a service like this being compromised should things turn bad all of a sudden legal wise? Could Uncle Sam start subpoenaing these services and have them run searches for entries like "Glock," "Smith & Wesson," "Colt," "AK," "AR," etc, and supply that list back to Sam? We already know that Google watches gmail, which is a cloud based service, so they can advertise appropriately to their users, and I'm sure other cloud service suppliers do the same. Even if you were a paid user of some of these services, I'm not so sure that this makes you any more secure should the S ever HTF.</tinfoilhat> I don't have a crystal ball, and so far it looks like in most places the pro 2A support is squashing the derpiness that keeps popping up, but we are still very early in this fight. 0 said in a debate last October, so pre election, pre Newtown, that he was going to do something about evilness, Newtown and to a lesser degree the Christmas eve shooting in New York (which I've heard nothing about lately,) fanned the flames from his debate speech so the time is now that they have to make this charge up the hill. We have 4 MORE YEARS of 0 in the White House, and who knows what will happen in 2 years at mid term elections, God help us if we somehow lose the House by then and we're back where we were in '08 with a minority everywhere and no way to stop a steamroller. There are also several SCOTUS judges that are in there 70s with a possibility of needing new appointments in the next 4 years, this will not go our way either. What say the hive about storing sensitive data online like this? Am I missing anything or does anyone have any other thoughts? Possibly I'm being a little overboard with security, and I don't believe at this time it will get that far in the foreseeable future to worry about such things, but there is still that tickle in the back of my head now thinking "what if." |
|
Quoted:
All my important info is in dropbox in a Truecrypt file. If they can crack that files security, they can crack anything else I throw at them while still being able to access my own data. They will simply install a trojan on your computer to keylog and steal the files while they are unlocked. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
All my important info is in dropbox in a Truecrypt file. If they can crack that files security, they can crack anything else I throw at them while still being able to access my own data. They will simply install a trojan on your computer to keylog and steal the files while they are unlocked. Yea, not going to happen unless you are targeted. If you are targeted, you are fucked. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
All my important info is in dropbox in a Truecrypt file. If they can crack that files security, they can crack anything else I throw at them while still being able to access my own data. They will simply install a trojan on your computer to keylog and steal the files while they are unlocked. Foxxz, can you give me a brief description of how this works? Does it encrypt all of your dropbox files? Can you access them from other places, ie smartphone, web access, etc, still or does this have to be running on that computer as well? thep33t, I've actually had concern about this as well, but mainly because I have a few folders that are shared with others, and one of them is with someone at work that knows programming, I work for a software company. Mainly I've wondered about them putting some file in there that would watch what I do all day, and obviously all night, on my computer, which is my personal pc and I work from home... |