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Hey, just as a funny side note, I implemented this on this very domain back in the early 2000s. Gald to see someone else is using the domain this way :-)
What did you do with the people who had signed up for you site?
I think there is a need for this type of service. Two comments:
* People might be concerned that this website will shut down long before they pass away. On the homepage I suggest you GUARANTEE that emails will be sent.
* I am 34. I don't want to pay $1.67 every month for the rest of my life. Make it an easy purchase decision: one time fee of $40. For example.
Interesting idea. I think my father might be interested. Every time he flies on a plane (not often), he lets me know where various financial information is and the passwords to get at it. The pricing seems really strange to me. Wouldn't only messages be sent when someone is dead or severly disabled? A model similar to life insurance makes more sense to me where the customer pays a small amount of money on a yearly ba…
So your father and also I would be interested. But I really doubt a service like that would last given the current startups scene we have now. It must be rock solid. Fully dependable. It's life-and-death business here. I'd pay a good amount for this kind of solution.
As I understand it, these are rather tightly regulated in many states for the same reason you're asking this service to be dependable.
Hey, just as a funny side note, I implemented this on this very domain back in the early 2000s. Gald to see someone else is using the domain this way :-)
This is of course the main problem with this type of idea. It is very likely that I will live longer than this site will, therefore it doesn't make sense to use it. What did you do with the people who had signed up for you site?
What company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service?
I feel like WordPress.org or Wikipedia Foundation would be two companies with the right moral compass, funding and longevity who would be great backers of something like this.
Hello, I think there is a need for this type of service. Two comments: * People might be concerned that this website will shut down long before they pass away. On the homepage I suggest you GUARANTEE that emails will be sent. * I am 34. I don't want to pay $1.67 every month for the rest of my life. Make it an easy purchase decision: one time fee of $40. For example.
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This is of course the main problem with this type of idea. It is very likely that I will live longer than this site will, therefore it doesn't make sense to use it. What did you do with the people who had signed up for you site?
I share your fears about its longevity. What company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service? I feel like WordPress.org or Wikipedia Foundation would be two companies with the right moral compass, funding and longevity who would be great backers of something like this.
You need to know that when you kick the bucket in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years etc that the switch is actually going to work.
You need a company with the right moral compass; funding to pay for hosting, maintenance etc; and the longevity to keep going for the next 100 years.
Companies on the "maybe" list for me include Wikipedia, WordPress and maybe Evernote...
Internet Archive might be the best option if they can sustain their funding / longevity.
"Imagine that you die with computer passwords in your head, leaving coworkers without access to critical files."
I enjoy my job, and my coworkers are great people, but when thinking about things as serious as planning for post-mortem, I'll admit that thinking about how it would affect my employer ranks much lower on the list.
"For example, you can design your message to contain privately shared codes (“my password is a combination of the street where we grew up and the first name of your mother-in-law”)"
This would only really add security against a very small threat, if they were properly encrypting data at rest: attackers taking over one of the email addresses on the recipient list. And I'll not even dive into how bad it is to base passwords on this kind of personal info.
Is anyone aware of more details on what they're doing to secure this data?