Passport Support - Peace of Mind for Travellers

Milton, 01 Feb 2006/ travelpress.biz A new service allowing travellers to store secure copies of travel documents online has been launched. Known as Passport Support, the service provides secure online storage for copies of travel documents including passports, visas, air tickets, identity documents and travellers
cheques.

For years governments and travel companies have been advising travellers to take copies of all documents
(passports, licences, tickets etc) to help prove their identity and accelerate the replacement process if the originals are lost or stolen. Photocopies generally deteriorate and can be lost or stolen as easily as the original documents.

Passport Support will be extremely useful to travellers of all types, particularly frequent, business or adventure travellers. The stored documents can be accessed 24-hours a day, 7-days a week from anywhere in the world via the internet
( www.passportsupport.com ) so they're readily available in an emergency. Documents are secured by bank level encryption and security to prevent unauthorized access.

Loss of travel documents is a reality with over 58,000 British and Australian citizens reporting lost or stolen passports during the last year. Why risk it? Register at www.passportsupport.com today.

For further information contact [email protected] or visit our website www.passportsupport.com .

weblet....have you used this?...what is your experience?...thanks...

Or you could scan them and store them in something like a Yahoo Briefcase for free.

I've not used them, just thought it was an interesting concept some enterprising online entrepreneur has started to make a buck! Actually, someone else suggested using a keychain flash drive to put this info on plus any hotel/air/car etc confos. As long as you has access to your laptop or a computer with a USB port, this would work. They mentioned that they would not be comfortable having this info out on the net. Another person mentioned, "Online and secure don't seem to go together..."

I threw it out to see what other FTers thought...

Or send them as attachments to your gmail or yahoo mail. Also free.

Yup, stored them in my gmail account, which I think is much safer than this, if someone was able to hack into passportsupport's database, thing of all the info that could be revealed.

I've stored copies/scans of all my crucial info (Passport, driver's license, ticket confirmation numbers, airline elite cards, etc) on my personal website for years. Kudos to someone for taking a very simple idea and making a buck, but I, as a savvy technologial person, would never pay someone else to store such sensitive information on their computers. You guys have mentioned hacks, but what about the company turning sour and dissemenating the info to people who will pay for it?

If it smells bad, it probably is...

same here, been doing this for years
...for free on yahoo email