Very cool, but I must say the best way is still a paper with master password in a bank locker. May be distributed it if needed gor additional security.
Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
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#162> 5 out of 7
too high
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what I do too, but be warned about “fire proof” - a fire that results in the total loss of your house will create enough heat for enough time that fireproof gun safes and smaller fireproof lockboxes will be destroyed, or even if not, their contents will get hot enough to combust anyway. A bank safe deposit box offers a different security profile that’s probably more robust against fire because banks burn less…
Yes but your house has to burn down and you have to simultaneously lose your memory. If your house and PC burn, restore from online backup. If your brain burns, spouse restores from vault.
This assumes having a spouse.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just went through this. Sample size one: While the fire resulted in the total loss of the house it was actually the water from the fire department not the heat that did proportionally more damage. As a mental model you shouldn’t think of it as “what if my house burns down?” so much as “what if nice strangers roll up to my windows and chainsaw through my roof and spray 50,000 gallons of water in here?” Yes everything…
My insurance agent has recommended that once a year or so I carefully walk through the house with a video recorder, opening every cabinet and drawer and tool box and so on. It's easier than constructing a detailed inventory, but gives you the raw data you need to construct one in the unlikely even that you need it.
I gues the key here is where do you store that video!
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#165A sticker with your password to the monitor, like everybody else
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#166I personally do not really care if my relatives are able to access everything I was able to access once I am dead or forget everything. But they should be able to access anything of monetary worth.
So, without any crypto my belongings are either real estate or depots and accounts at banks. Both can easily be discovered in case of my death. I think there is a similar discovery process if I am subject to guardianship (permanently).
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#167The idea is very noble.
In am just thinking about the number of 5, who these times has really five trustable friends not just acquaintances or people bound by some specific activity perishing over time. I am afraid, for most people in the digital era this number is much lower (and I am certainly not speaking for myself now).
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#168What technique did you use for the timelock encryption?
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#169I personally do not really care if my relatives are able to access everything I was able to access once I am dead or forget everything. But they should be able to access anything of monetary worth. So, without any crypto my belongings are either real estate or depots and accounts at banks. Both can easily be discovered in case of my death. I think there is a similar discovery process if I am subject to guardianship (…
goal for the rest of your life: prepare and leave after your death more that real estate and bank accounts to your relatives and friends.
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#170We need a standard or reference for an SSS combined encryption mechanism. It definitely has value, but I don't think anyone will trust a single lonesome implementation no matter how good it is.