Gun data back up
Gunwallet to back up data about your guns.
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April 21st, 2010 at 9:23 am
USB thumb drives are cheap. So are safety deposit boxes.
Storing a list of your guns (complete with serial numbers!) on some hard drive out on the intertubes doesn’t strike me as the brightest thing you could do.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:28 am
It’s a way to give all your gun information to a third party who you don’t know. Add to that the fact that the .gov can subpoena that third party if they want to know what guns you own without having to notify you, plus the fact that you have to pay $20 a year for the privilege, and it just looks like a bad idea.
Tam’s got it right. Get a USB thumb drive, GPG encryption (free), and a safe and secure place to store the copy (I would recommend encrypting at least the copy, in case someone else gets hold of it).
Some things just do not belong in the cloud.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:31 am
You know digital cameras are cheap and creating text files with said firearm information is easy enough. Likewise putting that data into a TrueCrypt partition and burning that partition to a CD gives a nice easy to mail package. Send off the encrypted information to a family member and there you have it, secure off site gun information back.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:30 am
Didn’t know ’bout TrueCrypt. Thanks for tip.
My brother-in-law lives in Fla. panhandle. We exchange backup disks. See no reason to backup at a site accessible by anyone and their subpoena.
April 21st, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I’m going to have to agree here, thumb drive or CD/DVD and encryption. Who owns Gunwallet and with whom are they affiliated.
Picture a firm like this being sponsored or fronted for an anti group, or even the Bradys themselves. Instant data mine that could potentially be worth quite a bit to, oh, anti politicians, alphabet agencies, insurance companies, burglars.
Might be an honest concept by a scrupulous and upstanding individual, but I’ll pass. I work in the IT industry and the best way to secure data I know is strong encryption and keeping it completely off the net
April 21st, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Their privacy policy basically says that they will cave at the first suggestion that some alphabet soup agency wants a peek at the data.
Pass.
April 21st, 2010 at 5:04 pm
My Glock has a 4GB memory card and a USB port. I thought they all came that way.
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I too am skeptical of storing information like this online.
Fortunately, it’s trivial to use GPG to encrypt data and email it to myself. If I was feeling particularly sneaky, I could always print out the encrypted text (restoring from paper would be relatively easy with OCR, or a bit harder with having to type everything out) and keep the paper somewhere safe. microSC cards are even smaller and easier.
TrueCrypt is also a good choice, but less suitable for sending email to oneself, storing at Google Docs, or otherwise keeping the information in small text files.