Sending yourself private info and photos, can anyone else see it?

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If you send private emails from yourself to yourself for passwords and private photos, can anyone check them or see them?
 
Your email provider can. But why would they be interested in that.
But if you really want to be on the safe side, encrypt them with a password.
 
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It's stored on an email server you don't own, so there's that.

Transmit wise the data shouldn't leave your email provider, however.
 
If you take photos on your phone but want them hidden, what's the best way? I thought sending myself (through email) would be the best solution, but worry would be seen. And sending myself an email with all my passwords for amazon, ebay etc, is that a good idea?
 
If you have so many passwords that you are afraid of forgetting them, a password manager might be a good solution.
Alternatively you can store them in an encrypted file where ever keep your backup.
I only have 2 passwords i use, so i just remember them.

For the photos, i just use google drive. Every image i take will be send to my drive account. Sure, google can see them, but why would they?
They literally got trillions of photos on their servers, so what makes your photos special? And believe it or not, they do actually care about privacy.
 
textbook said:
If you take photos on your phone but want them hidden, what's the best way? I thought sending myself (through email) would be the best solution, but worry would be seen. And sending myself an email with all my passwords for amazon, ebay etc, is that a good idea?
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Why can't you transfer them via USB or wifi like a normal person,?
 
If you want to back up photos check out a cloud drive and use boxcryptor. For your passwords check out keepass. There is even an App, but don't store them on the cloud. Keep them locally and back up the database to USB or CD. I do this on a DVD/RW and that gets stored in a fire proof/water proof safe.
 
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If you want to back up photos check out a cloud drive and use boxcryptor. For your passwords check out keepass. There is even an App, but don't store them on the cloud. Keep them locally and back up the database to USB or CD. I do this on a DVD/RW and that gets stored in a fire proof/water proof safe.
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Can't have them hurricanes and forest fires stealing your passwords.
 
So you just lost access to your bank account, PayPal, Charles Schwab account, eBay, Amazon, Amazon S3 account Info, FTP account Info. for your websites, Google account and the list goes on and on. Seems like an easy thing to do considering a fireproof/waterproof safe is around $35 at Walmart. Why not take a proactive approach to safe guarding your information? I also keep important documents in my safe.
 
*shakes head* At least I have enough sense to protect my passwords in case of a catastrophe. I really don't give two shits what you think. I'll do what I want and you can say what you want, but that doesn't change the fact you idiots are just that, IDIOTS!
 
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