with_teeth
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How do y'all feel about using google drive as a way to keep a firearms log. Part of me feel like having serial numbers and such on a drive could lead to people I don't want having my information. Opinions?
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Warners
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I keep mine, and other documents on my Google drive. That way I can access it from anywhere. What is the concern? Privacy?
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ZeSpectre
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What you can do is use truecrypt to create an encrypted file which you can then copy to Google Drive. Any time you want it, just retrieve the file and open it locally with truecrypt to see the contents.
This also works well if you want to email something securely (though you have to watch the file size)
This also works well if you want to email something securely (though you have to watch the file size)
mgmorden
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The Truecrypt option ZeSpectre mentions is a valid possibility (I use that for certain things myself), but for firearms serial numbers you're generally fine to just store it there (I do).
Google's security is a lot better than what you likely can provide on your home computer, and you're probably fine to store the info there. For the paranoid - the amount of work that would be required for the government to wade through randomly formatted data files finding information and funneling that into a database would be so enormous as to not be worth it.
Even at work (and I work for a government institution) we use Google Docs as their security was deemed sufficient for us.
Google's security is a lot better than what you likely can provide on your home computer, and you're probably fine to store the info there. For the paranoid - the amount of work that would be required for the government to wade through randomly formatted data files finding information and funneling that into a database would be so enormous as to not be worth it.
Even at work (and I work for a government institution) we use Google Docs as their security was deemed sufficient for us.
You can use dropbox or box (two separate things, similar names, but do mostly the same thing)
Then they are accessible from anywhere, and I trust them more than I do google. Seems like google mines a lot of data for use in advertisements. I still have yet to get rid of my gmail account though.
Then they are accessible from anywhere, and I trust them more than I do google. Seems like google mines a lot of data for use in advertisements. I still have yet to get rid of my gmail account though.
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I trust more to "Google" than I probably should...
For something like this I would just keep multiple copies on USB sticks in various places.
Be Safe!
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For something like this I would just keep multiple copies on USB sticks in various places.
Be Safe!
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I just started keeping my inventory of ammo and firearms on Evernote. I also use box, but haven't bothered to make them files yet as it's nothing massive.
For privacy... it's been brought up to me that if the .gov really wanted to get up in our privacy through google they could know a heck of a lot based on our internet searches. They'd have good probabilities for gun models and ammo calibers... where we likely bought them and the price. Ever had amazon send you some creepy suggestions??? Companies are really good at knowing our habits.
For privacy... it's been brought up to me that if the .gov really wanted to get up in our privacy through google they could know a heck of a lot based on our internet searches. They'd have good probabilities for gun models and ammo calibers... where we likely bought them and the price. Ever had amazon send you some creepy suggestions??? Companies are really good at knowing our habits.
oneounceload
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Google reads every email on gmail. What makes you think your data on their system is safer?
hey_poolboy
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I use box, dropbox, and google drive. I store more sensitive stuff on box, but I'm not too concerned about any of them.
Whatever you do make sure to make GOOD passwords.
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mgmorden
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They don't "read" your email. That would be a inefficient and useless. They have algorithms that scan your email for key words and use that to target advertising.
If you talk about computers a lot you'll see computer ads. If you talk about guitars a lot you'll see guitar ads, etc. Serial numbers register as useless noise to such algorithms.
breakingcontact
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As do many of us. They're just so damned efficient.
Cesiumsponge
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+1 Truecrypt
It's so incredibly flexible and you can be as fancy as you want in your security measures. http://news.techworld.com/security/3228701/fbi-hackers-fail-to-crack-truecrypt/
It's so incredibly flexible and you can be as fancy as you want in your security measures. http://news.techworld.com/security/3228701/fbi-hackers-fail-to-crack-truecrypt/
blarby
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I just use Gmail, so I would have no reason not to use drive if I chose to do so.
Just about all traffic is routed through .gov servers for later un-encrypting later anyway- once they can get around the constraints of 256 cracking.
By the time the .gov goes snooping around for SN's and their owners, where you have that data stored is going to be the least of your concerns.
If you are worried about "hackers" and such- have no fear. They could care less. About the worst thing I could think of would be duping your SN onto another firearm for later dropping at a criminal scene= SERIOUS tinfoil stuff there.
If it really bothers you, just back it all up on a USB, and slap it in your bank vault box.
In all seriousness, your insurance company ( if you are so covered) should have a list of those numbers anyway...and believe me, they will never lose them...and they are about the first person I would call other than my wife if I needed to use that info because pieces were missing or destroyed !
Just about all traffic is routed through .gov servers for later un-encrypting later anyway- once they can get around the constraints of 256 cracking.
By the time the .gov goes snooping around for SN's and their owners, where you have that data stored is going to be the least of your concerns.
If you are worried about "hackers" and such- have no fear. They could care less. About the worst thing I could think of would be duping your SN onto another firearm for later dropping at a criminal scene= SERIOUS tinfoil stuff there.
If it really bothers you, just back it all up on a USB, and slap it in your bank vault box.
In all seriousness, your insurance company ( if you are so covered) should have a list of those numbers anyway...and believe me, they will never lose them...and they are about the first person I would call other than my wife if I needed to use that info because pieces were missing or destroyed !
willymc
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I have Carbonite as a backup for my computer. I can access any file from any computer.
gbran
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What happens to your data when or if they go belly-up? A lot of big names have come and gone over the life of the internet to date.
MachIVshooter
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Hmmmm. Nope, not me. I don't trust google at all, and refuse to use them as a search engine after they banned firearms from google shopping. I also cancelled my vistaprint accounts, as they are a google affiliate.
Personal firearms records on google? Are you nuts???
Mine are kept on PAPER. That paper is printed from a machine that is not connected to the internet.
I don't mind sharing photos, but keeping an active list of what I currently own, including S/N? No way. It ain't just the .gov who can pry into that stuff; not all criminals are cavemen.
Personal firearms records on google? Are you nuts???
Mine are kept on PAPER. That paper is printed from a machine that is not connected to the internet.
I don't mind sharing photos, but keeping an active list of what I currently own, including S/N? No way. It ain't just the .gov who can pry into that stuff; not all criminals are cavemen.
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I keep a list of serial numbers in a safe deposit box at a local bank. This gives me complete privacy combined with the additional security of having a second list stored at a remote location.
savanahsdad
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+1 ^^^^^^^^
there was just a thred on here about useing PayPale as they are seen as anti-gun yet we see others useing google ???????????????????? I use nothing google !!!!!
X-JaVeN-X
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You could go old school and use a simple cipher method that only you know. Example would be to write your serial numbers down and for every letter, write the letter two letters up in the alphabet, and for every number write the number two numbers below it. so if the real serial is WD347 you actually type in YF125. This would give normal looking data with a simple cipher that's easy enough to remember. If you're using it just for serial numbers...it wouldn't be that much work.
max popenker
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actually, it's even simpler
get list of your serial No's without anything else, and call the file like "data.txt" or anything unspecific like this
I bet no one could tell by the alpha-numeric numbers if they belong to firearm, computer part, game cheat code of anything else.
If you want to have references to your gun make and model, use some acronyms that are easily understanable by you, but not any automated system, such as
15bush for Bushmaster XM15, 10sav for Savage 10, 22Gk for Glock 22 etc.
for example, If I would take this road, I would have file named "itemlist.txt" with content such as:
AB12345-1887Ch (my Chiappa 1887 shotgun)
BC322DE-92Rs (my Rossi 92 carbine)
etc
JVaughn
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Google isn't our friend from what I can tell. I still use it for searches, but that is it, I wouldn't give them any information of any kind, especially what types and how many guns I have.
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