I’m talking like photos of important moments of your life, and perhaps deceased loved ones or deceased pets. Maybe favorite TV, Movies, Youtube videos, stuff that might be lost when you get released. Let’s say like 1-5 terabytes worth of stuff.
Hard Drives at home wouldn’t be an option, since they’d get confiscated. If you bury a hard drive in the woods, it could get corroded.
I was thinking foreign cloud, but then you wouldn’t be able to keep paying the subscription since they’d probably try to seize your assets.
“Lifetime” cloud plans are kinds shady, I’m not sure if I could trust them.
So… what are the options? (Hypothetically)
And yes, budget is a huge factor. A person facing persecution would not have billions to create a dedicated building to store an archive.
- Encrypt your data.
- Make a disk image.
- Make a torrent of that image.
- Start a cult where the torrenting your data determines the ranking within the order.
- Come up with a cool name and logo for the cult. Maybe something like “The Archivists of Eternity” for example.
- ???
- Profit
If 4. is too hard (like, if you’re not cool enough), make two versions and send them out to different groups. “Secret files of Trump and Epstein; help us break the encryption!” And, “Free America Foundational Sovereign Data (Crucial For Rebuilding Society Once Trump Finishes Overturning The Corrupt Bureaucracy)”
Ten 2TB drives of different brands, wrapped up and glued into aitight containers. Hide sone in the woods, some at friends places if possible, and two in a bank vault (people had that back in the day, a sort of coffer in the bank, I don’t know if it exists any more). Two in a car that you put in a long time parking.
Fun excercise :-)
bank vault
I think they’ll search your bank vaults for any anti government materials and seize it. Also that is still a subscription (you have to pay a yearly fee to keep the safe deposit box).
Not if the vault is in Switzerland.
1-5Tb isn’t that much info. I would store it on several different hard drives and have them kept in storage at law firms or bank deposit boxes. Maybe compress and encrypt it into a torrent so it gets preserved on some seed boxes.
Lawyer, friends/family, cloud storage, or safety deposit box all seem like viable normal options.
To be extra safe. 6 hard drives (each with a copy of the files, and four stacks of Blu-ray disks (each with a copy of the files). Divide these into at least two yeti coolers (include a large silica gel pack just in case), and bury the coolers as deep as possible in the woods.
I feel like that’s gonna end up full of water after a few years even if it’s supposedly waterproof. Like a small pool that silica gel can’t help with.
