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Onkel Neal 05-18-09 03:00 PM
What happens to your digital life when you die?
 
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Your husband, an avid gamer and techie, dies of a heart attack, leaving his vast online life ­-- one you don't know much about ­-- in limbo.



His accounts, to which you don't know the passwords, go idle. His e-mails go unanswered, his online multiplayer games go on without him and bidders on his eBay items don't know why they can't get an answer from the seller. Web site domains that he has purchased, some of which are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,­ will expire, and you may never know.

It's a scenario that's becoming more likely as we spend more of our lives online. And it's raising more questions about what happens to our online lives after we log off for the final time. The answer, until recently, was nothing.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/18/d...t2test_techmon


Hmmm...something to consider.

Platapus 05-18-09 03:04 PM
How would this be different from the stocks I own that my wife does not know about? Or that condo for my mistress that she is not aware of? Or the gold coins I have buried under the big tree out back that I have been meaning to tell my family about?

While the digital life may make this a more common problem, I don't think it is a unique problem at all.

I wonder if there would be a reason why current probate laws would not apply to the "digital" stuff?

Platapus 05-18-09 03:06 PM
As for passwords to online accounts. How about writing them down and sealing them in an envelope. Give it to your lawyer and bob's your uncle!

No need to pay some service $30 per year :nope:

Rip 05-18-09 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1103319)
It wouldn't do you much good for your avsim account I'm afraid.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05...sim_destroyed/

Skybird 05-18-09 06:00 PM
When the time comes, I'll need to face the blue screen, I'm sure.

Sailor Steve 05-18-09 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1103323)
As for passwords to online accounts. How about writing them down and sealing them in an envelope. Give it to your lawyer and bob's your uncle!

No need to pay some service $30 per year :nope:
But how much do you pay your lawyer?:06:

Murr44 05-19-09 06:32 AM
I had to cancel my parents' internet service 5 years ago when they passed away. I had a hell of a time dealing with AOL (which was what they were using). It took me several phone calls to get them (AOL) to realize that my mom & dad were gone and that I was acting on their behalf. It still p*sses me off when I think about it...

Jimbuna 05-19-09 07:24 AM
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"My concerns are turning over such an exhaustive list of user names and passwords to a single business. That's one-stop shopping for any hacker to get access to just about every detail of my life."
Excellent point. :up:


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Lopez would prefer to entrust half of his digital-security information to a service such as Legacy Locker and the other half to family members, so that each side's information would be useless without the other's.
Good solution....but I'll stick to the skinflint method of a few passwords in an envelope 'only to be opened by my trusting offspring after my demise' :DL

August 05-19-09 07:31 AM
How about you send Neal a note with you and your wifes real name as well as your phone number. That way if you disappear unexpectedly he may, at his convenience, give the number a call to see if you croaked.

Easy, peasy, Japanesey...

Raptor1 05-19-09 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1103556)
Good solution....but I'll stick to the skinflint method of a few passwords in an envelope 'only to be opened by my trusting offspring after my demise' :DL
"Entrusted here is my accumulated wealth of twenty-five thousand two-hundred and eighty-one posts on the Subsim forums, may it serve you well"

Besides, true gamers and computer-addicts never die, they just fade away

StdDev 05-19-09 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Raptor1 (Post 1103560)
Besides, true gamers and computer-addicts never die, they just fade away
I disagree!!!
When the end comes it is usually very suƒ╖ ♦☼►↔◙◙

NO CARRIER

Jimbuna 05-19-09 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 1103559)
How about you send Neal a note with you and your wifes real name as well as your phone number. That way if you disappear unexpectedly he may, at his convenience, give the number a call to see if you croaked.

Easy, peasy, Japanesey...
Neal already has that information...besides, seeing how wealthy he already is I doubt he'd be interested in my meagre pittance :O:

@Raptor1....25,283 please don't try to short change me :sunny:

Raptor1 05-19-09 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1103571)
@Raptor1....25,283 please don't try to short change me :sunny:
Inheritance tax...


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