20 Jul
2014
20 Jul
'14
1:58 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 02:43:02PM +0100, Matt Molyneaux wrote:
On Sun, 2014-07-20 at 14:28 +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
*snip*
Yup, good points :)
A related thread of discussion is: how many people have actually
bothered to take care of their digital estate? Given that most people
only started using the internet regularly in the last 15-20 years, I
suspect that awareness of the issue is still worryingly low. A quick
informal poll of this list might be quite revealing: who here has
already taken care of this? Clearly I'm the first to confess that I
haven't ;-)
I would expect readers here to be far better organized in this respect
than the average non-technical person. So if most people here haven't
sorted it yet, everyone else is probably screwed ;-)
The downside is of course that it's a far less proven approach, so
there's probably a lot more risk something would go wrong than with
the traditional solicitor/will mechanism.
You could combine some approaches here with a traditional will. E.g.
have a password store that you can keep up to date but have a copy of
the key kept safe by your solicitor.
There is risk there too, but at least you'll have someone to drag
through the courts if that key *isn't* kept safe ;)