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Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by taylorportman »

itake wrote: post #18
latchkey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/

How do you know this website will last longer than you?

In the spirit of the OP, and finding an enduring solution... something like the deadmans switch should be implemented in a de facto utility like browser password recovery but extended with a weighted audience tied to the time elapsed. Why not have that same function that keeps up with your authentications notify X audience in Y time - 30 minutes even or 30 years with an emphasis on how perpetual. Reasonably I say we all got a good hundred years to plan for.

Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by protonbob »

RalfWausE wrote: post #35

To add another layer: It could also youself who might need such an 'cheat sheet': My dad suffers from an previously undiagnosed heart problem which escalated pretty badly last year, with a multi month long stay in hospital, coma etc.. He is now back and well, but time in a coma can do bad fuckery to your brain, in part to ones memory... He simply lost some significant parts and now he is pretty good occupied untangli…

Wow I had not thought about losing my own memory. This is my first step in untangling that mess that I have made whole also reducing dependencies on myself.

Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by fareesh »

Whenever I think of this problem I figure it would be best to have a key that you split into N parts and give it to N people you trust. That way if you're gone they come together and unlock it. More secure because if any of them is individually compromised, your information is still safe.

Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by protonbob »

sema4hacker wrote: post #21

A friend of a relative had their house burglarized over a weekend. The burglars took their time and took apart everything, cutting all pictures out of their frames, etc. If a written password existed, they would have found it. The "give it to an attorney" plan would also worry me, unless I knew exactly who/what/when/where/why/how access was controlled and GUARANTEED (after all, an attorney's system could break down a…

Ideally this should be stored at a safety deposit box in that case. There are certainly risks with having this information all in one place like you said.

Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by protonbob »

vietvu wrote: post #70

I have planned something like this when I was mentally down years ago. Basically a dead man switch, where it would send an email to my family if I did not extend it every 3 months. Yeah, I might forget, but I am a neat and good with memory and it didn't happen trigger. I turned it off after about a year, after I got better and finally see it as meaningless. Even now, I always think: After all, nothing would matter if…

I am glad that you are doing better. The purpose for this is to reduce stress on my loved ones. Including in something that I might recover from like a coma or potential degradation of cognitive skills.

Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by [deleted] »

Pilottwave wrote: post #49
aunlead wrote: post #28

I'm banking on the emergency access feature [1] of Bitwarden (available in self-hosted version too [2]). The "how it works" section has more information [3] but it essentially boils down to trusted individuals requesting access - which can be manually approved by account holder or they are automatically granted access after a pre-defined wait time. Bitwarden (paid version) also claims this - "If your premium features…

FYI: Bitwarden premium costs 10$ a year!

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Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by pi3rre »

wnkrshm wrote: post #58

I feel for this kind of stuff, you want to have a local, air gapped computer, maybe a Raspberry that has an encrypted drive. A little computer that is just going to work X years down the line. Edit: Or alternatively, keep a printed document and copies of all of that in a bank vault. Document lockers cost less than 100EUR per year.

The problem with bank safes is that the moment you die, it's going to be frozen and will only be opened when you have probate. That's why it's not recommended to keep your will in a bank safe.

Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

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Post by lentil_soup »

RalfWausE wrote: post #35

To add another layer: It could also youself who might need such an 'cheat sheet': My dad suffers from an previously undiagnosed heart problem which escalated pretty badly last year, with a multi month long stay in hospital, coma etc.. He is now back and well, but time in a coma can do bad fuckery to your brain, in part to ones memory... He simply lost some significant parts and now he is pretty good occupied untangli…

A similar situation can arise under duress. On the contrary to what people claim online, in dangerous places you want to cooperate with criminals, not get in between them and your stuff.

Under that type of stress it's very easy to forget passwords which might make criminals believe you're not cooperating. Having some things writen down (probably not all?) has come in handy for me personally.

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