Interesting idea. If, for some reason, your site goes down, will a note still be readable?
Show HN: WeExpire.org – Notes readable only after your death
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#12Interesting stuff if you find this thing useful:
Google's Inactive Account Manager: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en
Shamir's Secret Sharing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing
Re: Show HN: WeExpire.org – Notes readable only after your death
#13Interesting idea. If, for some reason, your site goes down, will a note still be readable?
The emergency note can be readable only via WeExpire, and that's for security reasons - you always need to be notified that someone is trying to access your emergency note.
As any other platform WeExpire could temporarily go down, but it will be always back online before than the minimum inactivity time you can set up in your emergency note (1 day).
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#14I have used https://www.deadmantracker.com since creation. This one seems to be similar but, perhaps, less intrusive—I have to check-in on DMT each week. Neat. The important part is permanence, if the service is to be trusted, and to be useful.
Thank you. Dead Man Tracker is a nice tool, however it completely relies on constant email notifications in order to understand if something bad happened (a more complex system to maintain). Also all the personal data is stored in a database that could be breached.
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I don't see what advantage this has over snailmail to themselves?
I think the most likely nefarious thing is the question of intentionally blocking aliveness checks. If the Satoshi heir waited for his keys from this what element would he spend a few million interfering with to get his inheritance early?
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#17Hm please don't trust a service such as this over a decent legal firm, you can find always a reliable solicitor / legal support in your neighborhood.
One problem with "reliable solicitors" is that it's entirely possible for their firm to go out of business too, with few, if any, repercussions for the proprietors. I'd prefer to trust something like a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance [1] with emergency access [2]. Maybe with redundancy even. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden [2] https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/
I think that is a solved problem. The legal profession is so old, and they are part of a system, that I would bet that most reliable solicitors have a continuity plan for their clients’ wills and other long terms legal paperwork.
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#18Um... someone is going to use this for sending their suicide notes.
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#19Hm please don't trust a service such as this over a decent legal firm, you can find always a reliable solicitor / legal support in your neighborhood.
Hm no thanks. I trust these guys far more than I do "my neighborhood solicitor/legal support" and I don't even know who runs the site.
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#20Um... someone is going to use this for sending their suicide notes.
Probably. Just like email or any other communication medium. I don't think that should stop people from coming up with new ways of doing communication.