Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[David Thornton]

a small aside..

 You need rubberhose

http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptography/filesystems/rubberhose/

My own local copy
http://archive.quadratic.net/software/rubberhose/

Now with "Smells like deniablity" action.

david

Walter Dnes wrote:

>  I'm not a company, or a consultant, just a guy with a computer.
>Approx 12:35 AM, very early Saturday morning, the fire alarm went off in
>the condo building I live in.  It turned out to be a hypersensitive
>smoke detecter that detected someone smoking (duhhh), so no damage
>except for some lost sleep.
>
>  I did grab my latest backup CD on the way out the door, but the
>incident made me think.  I have my /etc and home directories backed up
>on CD.  However, I also have a few gigs of personal stuff, e.g. scans of
>photos of my late parents etc, that I'd be very unhappy about losing.  I
>realized that if the place burned down, especially while I was at work,
>I would lose everything, including the backups.
>
>  So my question is, where can I find secure offsite storage for several
>gigs of my stuff.  Also, while there's nothing illegal in my personal
>files (I.e. no child porn or plans to blow up airplanes or whatever) it
>is personal, and I'd prefer to keep it private.  Is GPG still secure, or
>can an overclocked AMD crack it in a few days?  I assume that
>CSIS/RCMP/CIA will be able to crack it (by torturing the passphrase out
>of me if need be<g>).  I'm more concerned about the people like the
>crowd on this list (sorry about that) being able to crack GPG.
>
>  CDs and DVDs are too big for my safety deposit box.  Some low-end
>hosting outfit where I can rent a machine would work, but it sounds like
>overkill.  I'm looking at uploading a few gigs the first month, and then
>approx 250 megs (volatile stuff) twice a month.  Anybody have any other
>ideas?
>
>  
>

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