Business, passwords and your next of kin

Telva

Telva

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I did a search on this but nothing came up, what with every aspect of our online lives being passworded and the the online business being so confusing to an outsider - have you prepared anything that could assist your next of kin in the event of your untimely demise?

I know 100% that noone around me would understand what I do or how to access and/or run it and all of my account details are in my head (and a passworded Roboform). Amnesia would be a terrible thing right now.

It got me thinking, with earnings in various accounts waiting to be cashed out each month, advertising bills, hosting bills, domain renewals and such like.. it'd take a novice literally months to figure it all out and would no doubt put them under a ton of stress -- what's the best way to deal with this?

Have you prepared anything to help figure out your maze of deals?
 


Paperwork (with domains/id/pw), screenshots, accounts (hosting, bank, domain, etc) & videocasts (tutorials for running my shit) are sitting in a lockbox @ the bank. Also included in there are directions as to hire someone who is reasonably capable of picking up where I left off if they aren't up to it. If they can't figure that out and keep it running ... life insurance kicks in and my entire life's work gets flushed down the toilet.

My ears are wide open to other suggestions of how you guys handle this, it's been on my mind for some time now. Thanks for the thread OP.
 
I was talking to my grandmother about this the other day when she said she didn't have a will. We both agreed that it doesn't matter too much. You're not going to be alive so why would it matter? Now I can definitely understand if you're married or supporting someone, that's where you need life insurance I guess.
 
Spouse knows where to find everything and visa versa. Good luck with him carrying on what I do( and again visa versa.) though. I'm kinda going with, If the mack truck sceniero happens there's always the life insurance.

Now here's the really scary part. If something were to happen to LastPass, well then I'd be really fucked. It has all my shit in there. I haven't quite figured out a back up plan there. I know you can literally back it up on a usb which is probably what I should do and then just put that in a lock box.
 
turbolapp said:
Now here's the really scary part. If something were to happen to LastPass, well then I'd be really fucked. It has all my shit in there. I haven't quite figured out a back up plan there. I know you can literally back it up on a usb which is probably what I should do and then just put that in a lock box.
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That's exactly the reason I won't use LastPass. If it goes down, you're REALLY fucked.
 
I use a program called KeePass (Windows & Mac versions available). It stores your passwords in an encrypted file. I just backup that file to a USB drive, and installed Keepass on my next of kin's computer.
 
I use Goodsync synced from mounted TrueCrypt volumes or cryptsetup for linux backups. 3 online backups, 1 flash drive, 1 local harddrive. Don't plan on dying anytime soon but I do recommand Goodsync. The annoying part is that you have mount everything before backuping otherwise it takes too long copying over the entire container.
 
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