Personal Archival Storage by GreyS3c

Not to advocate that you become a doomsday pepper (not that there is anything wrong with that) or to scare anyone into building a fallout bunker for the nuclear apocalypse narrative that the mainstream media has been pushing, but one does not need much imagination to think of a scenario in which your personal data and records are whipped out. These days, stories about targeted events like hackers, home invaders or arsonists seems as common as mass events such as malware/ransomware, the heightened solar flare activity reported by NASA and the European Space Agency or the threat of nuclear war, including the use of nondestructive EMP devices.

With this in mind and while it may seem counter to many risk models as well as the general theme of this site, I’ve recently conducted a fair amount of research into technologies for back-up data archival of non-sensitive information. Files such as personal documents which may be publicly available, copies of some legal documents which my family may need to access after my passing and (more importantly) family photo’s and video footage, are all examples of these. They’re not sensitive, not under strict non-disclosures and aren’t likely to be used as evidence in a court case if seize, but they are of immense personal value and as such, should not be trusted to third-party service providers such as cloud services, or written to memory which can be modified or erased magnetically.

In this post, I will share a brief overview of some of the advantages of Blu-ray over other forms of long-term data storage, share my personal use case and setup as well as physical security considerations for setting up your own archive. I will also directly address natural and man made events, from solar flares to EMP and mass cyber events….or “Cyber Pandemic” as the WEF calls them..

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