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Personally I scanned my passport, etc, and saved the files to a password-protected zip file with an obscure filename. I put that zip file up on my website, buried deep in a subfolder, so it would be highly unlikely anyone but me would ever be able to stumble across it.
That said, with regard to doghouse's concern, when emailing a message to yourself, from yourself (same account), using a webmail account, the message never leaves the ISP's server infrastucture. When sending a message from your hotmail account, to your hotmail account, the weak link is getting the data from your computer up to the hotmail account in the first place (whether it's in the draft folder or not). Once it's there, since it's not going to an outside recipient, it never leaves hotmail's servers, and it is as safe as it's possible for a hotmail account to be.
Lastly, while some online email accounts use SSL encryption, most of them only use it for the login portion of the session. After a successful login, it reverts to plain text.
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