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Will your paper in the safe survive in the case of a house fire that kills you?



If it's a fire-rated safe, probably. Good point about paper, though, electronic media likely wouldn't survive. I'm going to update my records--the main stuff goes in a cloud account, but paper in the safe with the credentials.


Now that I read it again, the comment was about storing the master password in a safe, in which case, you could stamp it into a metal plate or some other solid that has a high enough melting point. Steel seems like a good choice of melting temperature, with titanium even better. Or try tungsten, for a much higher melting point.


My neighborhood burned up a couple years ago, and safes were fairly worthless, fire-rated or not. Papers were ash, precious metals were all melted. Many safes had shattered, or were so degraded they could be broken with a kick. Just a warning... I'm sure some safes can withstand intense housefires, but it seems like most claiming so, can't.




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