Time Capsule

Sealed Today. Opened When It Matters.

Cloud accounts disappear, providers change terms and files quietly rot. A Firevault Time Capsule preserves the letters, recordings and milestone files you want delivered years from now, sealed offline until the moment is right.

Why OSS
Rows of locked server cabinets inside a secure Firevault data hall
The evidence
01
Personal records stolen in single Co-op attack
6.5MPersonal records stolen in single Co-op attackBBC News, 2025
02
UK users' data exposed when LastPass was breached
1.6MUK users' data exposed when LastPass was breachedICO, December 2025
03
Global cybercrime cost in 2025
£8.3TGlobal cybercrime cost in 2025Cybersecurity Ventures 2025
04
Guarantees that your cloud provider exists in 25 years
0Guarantees that your cloud provider exists in 25 yearsFirevault research
Why Cloud Time Capsules Fail

The future cannot rely on a login that no longer exists.

01

Provider Outlives No One

Cloud services rebrand, get acquired or shut down. The capsule you sealed in 2010 may have no owner left to open in 2035.

02

Format And Format Decay

Files locked behind expired apps, deprecated formats and lost passwords become unreadable long before the date you intended to open them.

03

Always-On Means Always At Risk

A capsule sat in cloud storage for twenty years is twenty years of breach exposure, scraping and silent account compromise.

The reality

Cloud accounts are not permanent.

Every incident below is a matter of public record. Each one involved data that was reachable from a live network at the moment of compromise.

01

LastPass: 1.6 Million UK Users' Data Exposed After Breach

Hackers stole encrypted vaults and personal data from LastPass. Users who trusted the platform with long-term storage had everything exposed, demonstrating that cloud providers are not permanent custodians.

ICO, December 2025

02

Co-op: 6.5 Million Members' Records Stolen

Attackers exfiltrated personal data of all 6.5 million Co-op members. Data stored with the assumption of long-term safety was taken in a single attack.

BBC News, 2025

03

Capita: 6 Million People's Long-Term Records Accessed

Capita held long-term records for pension schemes, councils, and institutions. The ICO fined the company £14 million after hackers accessed data spanning years of accumulated personal records.

ICO, October 2025

Time Capsule

Your most sensitive data deserves protection that goes beyond software. Firevault provides the only storage that is physically disconnected from design.

The Scenario

A message that almost never arrived.

A father records a series of birthday messages for his daughter, to be opened on her 18th, 21st and 30th. He stores them in a popular cloud locker. Eleven years later the provider sunsets the product. The files are unrecoverable. With a Firevault Time Capsule, the recordings would have stayed sealed offline, untouched by any provider decision, ready to open exactly when intended.

"If it has to last a lifetime, it cannot live on someone else's server."

The OSS Time Capsule

Seal it offline. Open it on your terms.

Your Time Capsule lives inside a physically disconnected vault. Letters, voice notes, photographs and milestone files stay sealed offline until a chosen date, life event or named recipient triggers retrieval.

  • Offline by default, physically disconnected for the entire wait
  • Date-based or event-based release windows you define in advance
  • Format-stable storage that outlives apps, accounts and providers
  • Identity-locked retrieval by named recipients only

Write Legacy Documents to the Vault

Step 1 of 3

Letters, voice notes, photographs, and milestone files are written to physically disconnected RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. Once sealed, the capsule has no cloud dependency and no provider risk.

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Choose your protection

Which Offline Secure Storage® fits running an oss time capsule?

Every tier is the same physical principle at a different scale. Pick the access pattern that matches how your team works, then see the capacity, price and use cases for it.

2TB – 8TB

High Frequency 24/7 Access

From £360/mo

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Identity-locked, date-released retrieval for personal messages, milestone files and legacy recordings sealed offline until the chosen moment.

What 2TB – 8TB holds

~400,000 – 1.6M high-res photos
~1M – 4M PDF documents
~8,000 – 32,000 hours of voice recordings
~500 – 2,000 hours of HD video

Use Cases for Running an OSS Time Capsule

  • Birthday and milestone messages for children
  • Wedding day letters and recordings
  • Voice notes for future generations
  • Sealed instructions opened on specific life events
  • Personal manifestos and time-locked memoirs

Specifications

Capacity

2TB – 8TB

Access

24/7 on-demand

Authentication

Identity-locked

Commitment

36 months

Security & Compliance

Carefully Selected BunkersDSIT-ReferencedGDPR Art. 32Hardware Encrypted

How to Get Started

Step 1

Discovery Call

Understand what you need to protect and how you operate.

Step 2

Vault Configuration

Select your tier, capacity, and access model.

Step 3

Identity Verification

Complete KYC/AML and set up multi-factor authentication.

Step 4

Go Live

Data ingestion, access policy activation, and ongoing support.

Commercial Advantage

Win Business, Earn Trust, and Build Reputation with Butterfly

Butterfly is an operational model that helps organisations structure sensitive data to close deals faster, strengthen client relationships, and demonstrate the governance maturity that wins enterprise contracts.

Built on the VPPP framework (Vault, Policy, Permissions, Purpose), Butterfly maps your sensitive data and assigns dedicated Vaults by role, relationship, and purpose, turning data stewardship into a competitive advantage.

Deal Readiness

Governed materials ready to share with confidence

Client Trust

Demonstrate stewardship that earns loyalty

Board Confidence

Clear governance that inspires stakeholders

Enterprise Scale

Structure data governance across your organisation

Butterfly deployment model

Who Uses Butterfly?

  • Sales Teams

    Secure client proposals, pricing, and commercial intelligence

  • Service Providers

    Exchange sensitive documents with clients through governed Vaults

  • Businesses

    Protect strategic plans, IP, and competitive intelligence

  • Family Offices

    Structure data governance across principals, staff, and advisors

Questions

Frequently Asked