Saving important documents in 1Password

@1PassMicha That special encryption software might work for you, however I learnt that a pretty UI and the fact that software is open source alone isn't enough to make the whole process secure. Your whole environment. Every component is only one small part. You as the user are the most important part, the part that has the most impact on security - how you act in and navigate through the networks. Software cannot repair what you as a user do.

I consider myself an advanced user indeed, because I worked with IT my whole life and make my living with it. There was one day years ago where I had to decide to either refuse all networked stuff and keep everything local as it was previously, staying at that development status. Or to join the cloud stuff and networked stuff and gain all the benefits and development of modern IT.

I decided to join the cloud and all modern stuff, including social media. I not only joined the cloud, I also joined the crowd, the mainstream. I observe how security is supposed to be handled by the mainstream, and I apply my best practice from this best practice. This is, in my opinion, the best way to minimize risks by at the same time have all the convenience and service modern IT is able to provide.

That kind of encryption software you mentioned is not a part of this.

It's difficult to explain why, but I assume I have an educated judgement in this topic. Often, you make great efforts to secure a small part of your environment up to 100%, while some aspect you don't see still opens great security risks much more severe than the parts you secure. So you have to see your whole environment, not just that cloud storage. And if you see your whole digital environment, end-to-end encryption of your cloud storage instead of just "at rest" encryption as in Onedrive isn't important enough to justify that effort to make you depend on that encryption software.

If you're someone who has important data for a company or community to keep secure, so you might be a target for attacks, this might be different for you, but if you're just just unimportant person in the crowd as I, it is how I see it. Be vigilant, but don't be paranoid. You're not being haunted. The crowd is being haunted, and to stay secure apply best practice for the crowd.