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Show HN: What happens if you disappear

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Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#51
How is this secure? You yourself (or somebody who works for you – a rogue employee) could access your database and decrypt all of your customers passwords and sensitive data for their accounts. This adds a single point of failure for everything you store/send with it. You get hacked, and now they have access to everything.

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

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post #14

Cool idea, but what happens if, for instance, I lose access to my email account? Or if the messages start going into my junk folder? I'd hate to scare my loved ones with an email implying I've disappeared/died.

You will need to lose access to all (3) of your social accounts and your email, highly unlikely. One of the reasons why we don't have our own account management ...

What 3 social accounts?

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#53
post #39

Can't you send an email on a timer? Say a day or two after your birthday or some holiday. Every year on your birthday you reset the timer. It could take some time after you disappear for the info to arrive.

We can and we do. Just the cycle is month not a year cause we think your friends and family won't like to wait a year ...

They don't want to wait a month either.
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