| ▲ | repiret 2 hours ago |
| This is what I do too, but be warned about “fire proof” - a fire that results in the total loss of your house will create enough heat for enough time that fireproof gun safes and smaller fireproof lockboxes will be destroyed, or even if not, their contents will get hot enough to combust anyway. A bank safe deposit box offers a different security profile that’s probably more robust against fire because banks burn less often than houses. It’s probably not practical to really be robust against fire without being buried several feet deep. |
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| ▲ | Eduard an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gelsenkirchen_heist In December 2025, items worth an estimated €30 million were stolen from a Sparkasse bank in the Gelsenkirchen suburb of Buer, Germany. The thieves used a large drill to break into the bank's underground vault and proceeded to crack over 3,000 safe deposit boxes. |
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| ▲ | nerdsniper an hour ago | parent [-] | | Don’t need events that extreme. Regular branch banks have stuff go missing from the safety deposit boxes shockingly regularly. The locks aren’t particularly secure and various people are able to access them. It can be hard to find articles about them because they don’t make the news like the more remarkable incidents do. Examples of boring security box failures (but that were noteworthy in other ways so they did make the news): Jennifer Morsch, Roberta Glassman, Lianna Sarabekyan (multiple customers affected), Philip Poniz, Wells Fargo in Cape Coral FL, Wells Fargo Katy TX (many customers affected, blamed on road construction down the street), lots of individual stories where banks just totally stopped following their own procedures on ID checking and logging. The vast majority of these don’t make the news because there’s no proof there was even anything inside the box in the first place so anyone could be lying. > Mr. Pluard, who tracks legal filings and news reports, estimates that around 33,000 boxes a year are harmed by accidents, natural disasters and thefts. > Oddly, the bank returned to him five watches that weren’t his. “They were the wrong color, the wrong size — totally different than what I had,” Mr. Poniz said. “I had no idea where they came from.” https://archive.is/j8e6x |
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| ▲ | ses1984 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Another solution is to engrave your secret on something that’s stable up to household fire temperatures. |
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| ▲ | 0cf8612b2e1e an hour ago | parent [-] | | A real innovation from the Bitcoin world! There are several physical password store systems that they have suggested for this kind of use case. The simplest is basically using a nail to punch out a password onto a piece of sheet metal. | | |
| ▲ | echoangle an hour ago | parent [-] | | Just make sure that the metal you use has a high enough melting point. | | |
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| ▲ | eljojo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| do you store stuff in a bank? could you tell me more about it? my account gives me access to one for free and been meaning to put a yubikey there for a while but never have |
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| ▲ | willmadden an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Floor safes do better than above-ground safes. |
