Hereditas - digital legacy succession planning

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn nice. I'm thinking of greating a family "organisation" on Bitwarden for us to all securely share our logins and state what we'd like to happen. I hate that e.g. it's impossible to get Facebook to delete deal people's profiles (but of course you can do it if you've got their login).

[marcusquinn]

@jdaviescoates yeah, lots to think about in this area that I think we never make time for but then if we value our digital worlds then they are worth making sure family can too some day.

I haven't tested this yet but it could be that the file doesn't need to be hosted publicly, it could just be shared on a private file-share with some instructions on how to open it in the event of our not being around.

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn I guess it could just be a RaspberryPi with Bitwarden or similar on it, and a piece of paper with the master password written on it

[marcusquinn]

@jdaviescoates The problem I have with sharing super-access passwords with family or friends is the value those keys have, without the same level of knowledge of PC protection could be creating a backdoor by proxy. Somewhat I think physical world solutions are safe, as blockchains are a good example of enabling.

[marcusquinn]

@jdaviescoates Makes sense, or even a bootable USB stick or something like that. I've no idea what their shelf-life is though.

I feel thinks like encrypted stored files on GitLab/GitHub etc are probably a reasonably safe place too.

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn not getting your blockchain reference. But the RPi could be locked in a safe that needs two keys?

[marcusquinn]

@jdaviescoates Thinking things like a Trezor for storing bitcoin offline.

But then what we're looking at with Hereditas is the timelock, so if you aren't incapacitated you can stop access by declining when receiving a notification for access requested. Which then means the device has to be controlled i a way to make sure those live-man notifications get through.

It's complicated being dead eh!

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn said in Hereditas - digital legacy succession planning:

It's complicated being dead eh!

Rest in peace?

[marcusquinn]

@hillside502 Hah, I wish! Partly trying to make sure all those I work with don't have important stuff die with them and leave the rest of us without such peace

[robi]

yes, it's tricky..

Have friends who are homeless and break devices often.

That means weeks or months w/o phone or computer access.

Hence law firms and more intelligent, long lasting solutions.

I did have a blockchain project on this exact problem and now the Ark.io chain has timelocks implemented.

Just a matter of making it happen and popular.

[marcusquinn]

@robi Cool, ark.io looks nice, I'd love to get more time for blockchain stuff but for now I have bitten off about 6 epic projects at once so it'll have to be once they mature a bit.