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How can I share/store sensitive data for family (midwest.social)

submitted 1 month ago by adhocfungus@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I need to start making plans for when I am gone, much sooner than I thought, and I realized our finances are pretty opaque to my spouse. Our bank account is shared, but there are other sites that only I have access to.

The easiest solution would be to physically write down logins and what needs done, put it in an envelope, and tell my family where that envelope is. I'm not thrilled about that, because I would have to shred and rewrite it every time I update a password or a URL changes, and it'd be vulnerable to nosy guests.

Putting it in a shared Google Doc would be easiest for everyone. But then Google has that data. Even supposing I trust a cloud SaaS provider not to misuse the data (which is a big 'if') I do not trust them to never have a data breach.

Self-hosting seems like the next step, except I expect my home server to be the first thing to collapse once I'm gone. Filing login info with an estate attorney would still require frequent updates. Putting a document on a flash drive risks data loss, but is what I'm leaning towards.

Is there a solution I'm missing?

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

every time I update a password

Use a password manager. KeePassXC stores stuff in a file, so it's easier to synchronize. You can selfhost BitWarden too.

Syncthing is great to synchronize stuff across devices.

Cryptomator creates encrypted volumes (looks like a folder with gibberish inside) for you, which you can sync with whatever commercial cloud.

Putting a document on a flash drive

Data loss might come from bitrot, yes. Regardless, you should always have multiple backups.