Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? 335
smee2 writes "In the past, when a family member died, you could look through their files and address books to find all the people and businesses that should be notified that the person is deceased. Now the hard-copy address book is becoming a thing of the past. I keep some contact information in a spreadsheet, but I have many online friends that I only have contact with through web sites such as Flickr. My email accounts have many more people listed than my address book spreadsheet. I have no interest in collecting real world info from all my online contacts. The sites where I have social contact with people from around the world (obviously) require user names and passwords. Two questions: 1. How do you intend to let the executors of your estate or family members know which online sites/people you'd like them to notify of your demise? 2. How are you going to give access to the passwords, etc. needed to access those sites in a way that doesn't cause a security concern while you're still alive?"
More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:5, Funny)
Password Program (Score:3, Funny)
I have a password keeper on my Palm and my Blackberry. At the moment, every password and game keycode are in the Palm but I need to export that out and into something similar on the computer so I can back it up.
[John]
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:5, Funny)
'To who it may concern. Please use the below username and password to inform the other posters at AlbinoAmazonAmputeeLovers.com of my sad demise.'
Do it Da Vinci Code style. Lie naked in you pool of blood leaving them clues about Leonardo's paintings! It will be like an Easter Egg chase only everyone will be sad and miserable...
Shouldn't this be Jeff Probst's job? (Score:3, Funny)
I mean the guy is everywhere with the survivors... on the island, in the desert, etc. etc. If anyone can arrange electronic access for my Survivor TV show, it'll be Jeff.
TDz.
It's assumed (Score:5, Funny)
I've notified all of my Myspace friends that if they don't hear from me for a 48 hour period, it is likely that I am dead and they should just assume that is the case.
Simple, really (Score:1, Funny)
the password to all my accounts and encrypted partitions is
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Survivors? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:5, Funny)
It will be like an Easter Egg chase only everyone will be sad and miserable...
Redundant much?
do the easy route (Score:5, Funny)
Kill yourself in such a spectacular fashion that it will make the rounds on the net. Then anyone you would have wanted to inform about your demise would see the video, say "Oh, that's so you," and thus be informed.
Re:BFF (Score:5, Funny)
I'm relatively young, so I haven't put a lot of thought into this, but my best friend knows all the personal account names and passwords I use for everything. He would be able to get into any of my accounts with a few guesses. I don't have a comprehensive list of everything, but the main stuff would get worked out.
And before you security nuts go crazy about telling other people your passwords, keep in mind this is a person I trust above anyone else...even my own close relatives. If I can't trust him, then I must live a truely miserable life of denial full of people who dislike me. I also don't tell him any of the admin passwords at work, as A) other people have acces to those, and B) They aren't my passwords to give out, even though I know he would do no harm (hell he'd probably manage the network better than half our admins...)
Oh, I also know pretty much all his passwords too...so...yeah, he better not try anything :-)
You really expect us to believe that? How do we know this isn't him posting?
Facebook (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Other Ask Slashdots... (Score:5, Funny)
Dear sir, are you suggesting that similar content has been published on Slashdot on separate occasions?!
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:5, Funny)
Hi everyone. This is CmdrTaco's mom. I found him in the basement all dead. He said I should post it here.
By the way, what is this 'Goatse' thing I see referenced all over Taco's computer? Should I open it?
Re:It's assumed (Score:3, Funny)
There's not a lot of ways to die that would kill me so fast I couldn't send a Tweet about it, seeing as I am most likely in the middle of sending one anyway. Just in case, my cell phone knows that if I don't press any buttons for 3 whole minutes, it should post my "final_tweet.txt" file. It is a brief notice that I have just died, and a lengthy poetic tribute to all of my most loved Facebook apps.
Re:Very simple.... (Score:5, Funny)
He's lucky. My dad left me a smirky painting in the Louvre and a series of clues in ancient Parisian churches that I had to hunt down.
Re:BFF (Score:5, Funny)
I guess you aren't aware of the true meaning of BFF. I'm sure Kamokazi's friend would gladly die before giving out his Facebook password.
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:3, Funny)
I don't give a fuck what drives you nuts.
I'm dead!!
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:4, Funny)
And apparently the "Post Anonymously" checkbox doesn't work....
Re:Very simple.... (Score:3, Funny)
What if your house sets on fire, and you're standing on the front walk watching it burn when a firetruck shows up and runs over you?
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:3, Funny)
I assume by 'Da Vinci Code style' you're referring to those who sat through the whole thing... Everyone was sad and miserable...
The book, on the other hand, was great, in my opinion.
Re:Very simple.... (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, so here's what you do. You keep a padded, heat-resistant safe in an upstairs room of the house. Mount wheels on it, and place it on an inclined track, facing toward a pre-scored section of thinner wall. Rest it against a swing gate or chock held shut by a locking device made of lead. If your house starts on fire, the heat will melt the lead, the gate will open, and the safe will roll down the incline, bursting through the wall and landing safely in the yard, outside the major heat zone.
Of course, you have the problem of your house becoming a flaming safe-launcher as well as being on fire... I'm sure that can all be worked out in the implementation.
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:5, Funny)
And apparently the "Post Anonymously" checkbox doesn't work....
Did you try "Posthumously"?
Re:Survivors? (Score:3, Funny)
The frightening thing is you are modded interesting..
Some sick and twisted people here.
I went further. The rings on my and my wifes hands together make up the encryption key to access the file I have of all my usernames and passwords on a thumbdrive in the safe. the combination to the safe is inside the ring on my and her rings.
The celtic runes when translated to english = the 25 character passphrase that decrypts the data.
works great and the kids and everyone else knows this. Although my mother told me to stop playing spy and rolled her eyes at me.
I don't know whether to be shocked that you got married or joyous at the beacon of hope that women exist on Earth who will incorporate encryption keys onto their matrimonial bands...
Re:Hello, the person you know as sexmonkey69 has d (Score:4, Funny)
We regret to inform you, that VeNoM0619 has perished... in the real world. He has advised us in his will to inform his online accomplices of his early demise. Also, that 4 strength, 4 stam leather belt, is his, and will not be given away.
Hope this has brought nothing but sadness and unnecessary bad news to your once bright and cheery day,
Anonymous Family Member
Re:Very simple.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:are you kidding? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't worry -- in the event that his ring is lost, the secret chamber behind the bookshelf in the study contains a handwritten journal, containing the account of the time his arch-nemesis attempted to steal the ring and ended up with the celtic ruins burned into the skin of his left hand, along with seven riddles that, when solved, reveal the nemesis's identity. His family need only to find the secret chamber by pulling on the tail of the bronze monkey statue (you can't miss it, the framed portrait of Napoleon hanging on the wall opposite is looking directly at it) and they will be set on an exciting quest to track down the dark stranger and recover the ruins by dusting for handprints on his cane.
Re:Very simple.... (Score:1, Funny)
You store your porn in a deposit box at a bank?! Neat!
Re:Very simple.... (Score:5, Funny)
+1, Rube Goldberg
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:4, Funny)
In Soviet Russia Goatse opens itself.
And how.
Re:Very simple.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More to the point, would you want them to? (Score:5, Funny)
Facebook should introduce a "Dead" status.
Re:Very simple.... (Score:5, Funny)
Damn that's an awesome setup!
I really want to kill you now just to see your system in action!
Re:Very simple.... (Score:4, Funny)
-- Death threats and persons of interest file
Let us know if you get picked up
Re:Very simple.... (Score:3, Funny)
Well you just made his
-- Death threats and persons of interest file
Let us know if you get picked up :)
Oh don't worry about that.
I'm routing my session through your router.
Re:Very simple.... (Score:2, Funny)
I can no longer read "The Da Vinci Code" (Score:3, Funny)
Although I was given "The Da Vinci Code" this was only after someone else had given me "The Va Dinci Cod" which makes it very difficult to take the former seriously!