To me it sounds like digital preppers and I have no more "digital plan b" than I have a "bug out bag."
However I do have off line backups of my important digital files, and my wife and I share a password manager. We have given a sealed envelope with the password manager password to a trusted relative to be opened in case we both die. -- Charles On Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:38 PM Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > What are the ways in which silklisters keep an escape route from Big Tech? > > I mean we all use (whether we like it or not) products and services from > Google, Meta, Microsoft...(and, in 2025, OpenAI, Anthropic, et al). > > I am curious about how (and if) people here keep an escape route or two > open in case things go bad and you can't access your account(s) anymore. > > Speaking for myself, the service that hosts this list is itself one such > attempt. I chose to not use a free offering from google and pay for one > instead. Similarly, I have all of my email, contacts and calendars echoed > to a paid service. Ditto with cloud storage. > > You? > > Udhay > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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