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It’s not illegal to use someone else’s password even if all of the parties are alive. Unauthorized use of someone else’s password may be illegal.
how does one go about getting authorization from someone deceased? That's a neat trick! :)
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I trust it (in my case 1Password) because it’s a company that happily makes money from that trust, and if were to be insecure or the trust wantonly breached, they would cease to exist. Their motivations align with what I want them to be.
Lastpass made money the same way, and look at what happened to Lastpass users.
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I do the same thing but worry about a nation state or rich enough hackers to just take over the project and add nefarious code. I’ll never audit the code and make sure it produces the binary I get from the Apple store. So I’ve started adding my own “salt” - I type an extra character or two (same for all passwords) to the end of every password I enter. It’s the easiest way to protect against not being able to trust my…
If the hacker can decrypt your whole password safe and view all your plaintext passwords, I think they'll work out your scheme.
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how does one go about getting authorization from someone deceased? That's a neat trick! :)
We are discussing a lawyer who does estate planning, that’s something people do before they die.
Using a deceased person's password, even with this supposed "authorization" is a terrible idea.
There are laws and rules and standards of practice for dealing with this stuff and they should be followed. This lawyer is at best, giving bad advice and at worst, encouraging breaking rules and regulations.
What we all should do is build in plans for our deaths around the time we hit 18, and make sure our heir(s) know what's up. i.e. I have these insurance policies, these bank and credit and investment accounts, etc.
One solution, Fidelity has a free service available for people to help with this: https://www.fidsafe.com/
A piece of paper of course works just as well, assuming your heir(s) know where in the world these papers are.
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The only problem with that is you have to be all-in on Apple to make it work. I certainly use it on my MacBook, iPhone and iPad, but I also still use LastPass because my Windows machine doesn't know anything about the keychain.
I carefully eviscerated windows from my life. It’s better that way if you can do it.
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So…security by obscurity.
Nothing wrong with security through obscurity as an extra layer on top of encryption.