Something I've been thinking about for a while is what will happen to
all my digital assets - all my online accounts, etc. - when I die.
More particularly, if I die suddenly in an accident, etc.
I own all the domains for my family's name and the hosting accounts
they (and several clients) all use and, like many of you, have many
online accounts for everything from banking through to Twitter. This
is a growing problem - I imagine the laws regarding power of attorney,
etc. vary all over the world and many online services are bound by
different agreements depending on territory, etc.
Does anyone know of a service out there that handles something like
this? I can't imagine anything that wouldn't ultimately depend on
telling someone the master password and thus potentially being a
massive security compromise. How would you go about it? I've been
thinking of a "nuclear launch" style mechanism where two people have
to agree to unlock something for it to happen - say each side had only
one half of the password. But who would you give it to? Someone you
trust that closely might also go down in the same plane/car/train with
you.
Any thoughts? (And if there isn't such a thing, anyone got any
interest in trying to build one?)
Best,
Andy
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Andy Polaine
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Interaction Concept Design
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