New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Granting access to your digital life in case of your death
Ask HN: Granting access to your digital life in case of your death
3 by fearingreprisal | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Please forgive me if this is an already answered question. Lately I've been giving thought to how to implement some kind of system to ensure that should I die or become otherwise incapacitated my next of kin will be able to gain access to the variety of online accounts I use. I'm not necessarily concerned with ownership of said accounts, access will be enough. I don't necessarily use my legal name on all accounts and I am not an American, so I imagine relying on legal means to establish ownership would prove too problematic. Due to the significant number of different accounts that I use overall ( think in the realm of 10-20 ), there is a challenge posed to keep an updated table of username/password combinations in a secure manner. Is this something other people on HN are thinking about? And if so, how are you approaching the issue? I'm currently considering using a password manager with a centrally stored database to handle this, and providing a way to access this in my will. I imagine I have made oversights here. I would definitely appreciate any advice. Thank you.
3 by fearingreprisal | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Please forgive me if this is an already answered question. Lately I've been giving thought to how to implement some kind of system to ensure that should I die or become otherwise incapacitated my next of kin will be able to gain access to the variety of online accounts I use. I'm not necessarily concerned with ownership of said accounts, access will be enough. I don't necessarily use my legal name on all accounts and I am not an American, so I imagine relying on legal means to establish ownership would prove too problematic. Due to the significant number of different accounts that I use overall ( think in the realm of 10-20 ), there is a challenge posed to keep an updated table of username/password combinations in a secure manner. Is this something other people on HN are thinking about? And if so, how are you approaching the issue? I'm currently considering using a password manager with a centrally stored database to handle this, and providing a way to access this in my will. I imagine I have made oversights here. I would definitely appreciate any advice. Thank you.
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