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I've been thinking about going (almost) all digital for my record-keeping. Kind of like this guy: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/05/paper-free/ Of course there are various considerations that would need to be addressed before doing that. One of them is encrypted offsite backup. That guy uses Backblaze and probably it's a perfectly good service. But it's opaque. I have no way of even having a fairly good idea how secure it is. I never supposed that Dropbox was secure, but lots of people did. Doing it myself using Duplicity looks like it might be promising. It seems to be written in Python and to be pretty flexible. It will backup to Amazon S3 and I might even be able to persuade Mike to provide a suitable service for the back end. On the other hand, it does look like it's trying to glue a lot of things together. Rsync, GnuPG, FTP, WebDAV. Really, FTP? And what the heck is HSI in this context? I can imagine something pretty Frankenstein-y coming out of all that. And can it possibly be efficient? In any case, I'd be glad to hear people's opinions. Regards, Matt