Stumbled upon this today http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/18/death.online/index.html?iref=t2test_techmon&eref=rss_topstories Interesting concept of organizing your "digital" assest when you die... Im not too sure how I feel about it... Thought I would share
As sick as this might be, I actually thought about that at once. "If I died, how would my wife know how to let some of my online friends know?" I thought about (Still haven't done it yet) making a list of my login and passwords to different websites (such as this one), e-mail accounts, IM services, etc etc.
If you died, ryan, everyone on t3hw00t would know because I'd post photos of me farting on your grave.
also..firefox.. you can show all sites and passwords by doing a few clicks... but I figure if I die... the people I care about and whom care about me would know anyways....
In our age of "six degrees of separation" - someone is always going to know. If you pass, right now, in your home, someone WILL know. We will find out about it here in internet land. I also am not too keen on there being a place where your passwords and etc are stored. I don't agree with writing them down either, unless you're near your deathbed and then - go see your lawyer and give HIM all of the passwords. If you were to set this up now, do you intend to never change any of those passwords? For the rest of your life? I haven't checked the site, since it's blocked at work, so I could just be blowing smoke here ... but it seems a trite shady, and even a bit morbid. Yes, you read that right. The goth chick told you this was morbid.
Seems like it would be a hackers paradise... a website with tons of valuable info So, unless, they have firewalls up the ass, I dont know if I would trust it... But an interesting concept
Sort of off-topic, but sort of not. I've been using KeePass on a USB drive to organize all my website logons. It has a strong password generator so that I can have unique passwords for every account online. It requires no installation, and will fire up on any PC you pop your USB drive into. Everything is stored in a highly-encrypted database. It takes a while to get used to not using a similar (or the same) password everywhere, but with all the keyloggers and malware out there, it's so easy for someone to get your password, and you have no idea until all of your accounts are compromised. http://keepass.info/