Death and passwords: two things we just can’t avoid. With so much of our lives tied up in cloud services nowadays, there’s good reason to worry about what happens to these accounts if we drop dead tomorrow. For many of us, important documents, photos, financial information and other data will be locked behind a login prompt. Your payment methods will also expire shortly after you have, which could lead to data loss if not handled promptly. The most obvious way to address this is to give a trusted party access in case of emergency.
The article below is food for thought certainly, but not comprehensive at all in terms of what services offer this. Emergency contacts are trusted users you nominate, who will either gain access by default if you are not using the account for a period and fail to respond to prompts, or else they can request access. A good password manager will quickly enable the accesses they need to get to photos, documents, social media accounts, etc. It’s your choice, but it’s worth also considering from your family’s perspective too. Or yes you could save the master password on a piece of paper in your safe (assuming your family knows what to find where – you’ve planned all that haven’t you…).
https://hackaday.com/2021/09/01/the-postmortem-password-problem/
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Death and passwords: two things we just can’t avoid. With so much of our lives tied up in cloud services nowadays, there’s good reason to worry about what happens to these accounts if w…