On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Udhay Shankar N<[email protected]> wrote: > It got me wondering, what are the policies at various sites, such as > yahoo and google, for account-holders who die? What happens to their data?
We should all write scripts that run somewhere in the cloud that parses RSS feeds of various sorts to figure out when its creator is dead and then proceeds to do an orderly shutdown of all the creator's accounts (or wreck havoc on the world as in the case of _Daemon_ by Daniel Suarez[1]). Thaths [1] http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113/ -- "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel." -- Homer J. Simpson
