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Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by brigandish »

Just a thought after having read through the comments, not all emergencies are the result of death, and, since pretty much any textual information can be stored in a Bitwarden vault, the kinds of emergencies could vary widely. A well-thought out use of the share/collection features might mitigate a lot of "emergency" situations though.

I do, however, look forward to the clichéd "you had her change the will just days before her death" in murder mysteries being replaced with "you signed her up for Bitwarden's emergency access just days before her death"…

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by brigandish »

neartheplain wrote: post #66
ahnick wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are going to have to rely on another human being (or perhaps a group of trusted individuals) even in that case. Depending upon what caused your incapacitation, you may or may not be able to actually retain and manage your secrets going forward. Put another way, if your wetware is damaged you may need a backup (aka trusted human) to handle your secrets on your behalf.

I think you are going to have to rely on another human being (or perhaps a group of trusted individuals) even in that case. Not necessarily. Bank safe-deposit boxes are a secure place to keep secrets. To guard against rogue bank employees, encrypt the stored secrets and keep the key at home on a sticky note. If you ever hit your head and forget all your secrets, just present your ID to the bank teller, pull the secre…

In that situation I can see myself forgeting where I'd put the sticky note, or what it meant.

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by bronco21016 »

gpanders wrote: post #17
aunlead wrote: post #16

The pandemic has made me (re)evaluate how my family can get to my finances and online services. Such solutions can solve issues related to bank/trading account access and key documents but what about subscription services? All my subscription services from Netflix/Plex (less important) to VPN/Blackblaze (more important) are tied to my credit cards, which upon my untimely demise will be deactivated. My family will sur…

After my wife watched the show “Dead To Me” on Netflix, we had this exact same discussion. I ended up writing a “death document” on Google Docs and sharing it with her. It just outlines “here’s where everything is and this is what you do with it”. It was done kind of jokingly, but now that it’s written it actually makes me feel much better. For passwords and such, she has a Bitwarden account too and we share all impo…

Fun story about shared passwords in Bitwarden... I recently had to undo that process because I’m going through divorce. We aren’t at the point of severing everything yet but my ex took the liberty of using the shared Bitwarden passwords to sign into each of the utility (gas, electric, etc) accounts and change the passwords. Thus locking me out.

I had resisted doing anything with the shared passwords prior to this because the process to unshare an account is to delete it from the organization and make a new entry on your personal vault.

Ultimately the blame is on me but the process for unsharing is broken. I guess the moral is to just be careful about sharing accounts in a BW org if you ever expect you might have to undo all of them. It was about 15 accounts in all because we had also shared everything related to financial institutions and health care. I did take the time to change each of them as well since there was no way of knowing what may have been copied.

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by fomine3 »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #44
toomuchtodo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything should be documented. We have a binder with checklists that walk you through gaining access to everything the other partner might need in the event of death (email accounts, domain registrar, bank and brokerage accounts, auto/home/life insurance, ongoing recurring bills of all sorts). Bitwarden databases are exported to paper, 3 hole punched, and put in the binder on a schedule. Both partners get setup wit…

This is a good approach, but it requires having a partner in the first place...

Anyway does it needed unless partner or something exists?

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by galkk »

aunlead wrote: post #16

The pandemic has made me (re)evaluate how my family can get to my finances and online services. Such solutions can solve issues related to bank/trading account access and key documents but what about subscription services? All my subscription services from Netflix/Plex (less important) to VPN/Blackblaze (more important) are tied to my credit cards, which upon my untimely demise will be deactivated. My family will sur…

I have shared document that has high level details: Savings accounts, investment, 401ks etc. That is known to my wife. We both use lastpass, so Im also using delayed access release* for wife (14 days) and for my brother (30 days, he lives in another country, were not particulary close).

If we travel together with wife on something like plane we ensure that our wills, that have the same information as above are shared with relatives.

* the wife can request access to my account. I'll get email notificarion. If I wont reject it in given time period the access will be given

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by neartheplain »

brigandish wrote: post #72
neartheplain wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are going to have to rely on another human being (or perhaps a group of trusted individuals) even in that case. Not necessarily. Bank safe-deposit boxes are a secure place to keep secrets. To guard against rogue bank employees, encrypt the stored secrets and keep the key at home on a sticky note. If you ever hit your head and forget all your secrets, just present your ID to the bank teller, pull the secre…

In that situation I can see myself forgeting where I'd put the sticky note, or what it meant.

That’s why you write the whole plan down on yet another sticky note!

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by ssklash »

dastx wrote: post #65
dastx wrote: post #31

And you still can't use Bitwarden in Firefox's private mode.

Not sure why I'm getting down-voted. It doesn't work in Firefox's private mode. Nearly 4 years after the issue was raised. It was completely dismissed as "something Mozilla needs to fix" on multiple occasions.

It works, but you need to right click the field you want to fill and mouse over to Bitwarden.

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by jjnoakes »

shortandsweet wrote: post #63
jjnoakes wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't do anything with my online accounts; for assets I rely on beneficiary information and my will, and I expect that the online accounts will just die off (as CCs close, etc). I've always wondered if I should do more. What are the downsides of relying only on wills and beneficiaries? What might I be missing with this super basic estate planning?

I know of two off the top of my head, probate and people fighting over your stuff

Could you elaborate?

What issues would simple wills and beneficiaries have in probate? And how does giving someone access to my passwords avoid those issues?

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