[plug] What to do with service accounts, payment methods and passwords after your death?

[Benjamin]

Mostly something like BitWarden with a password distributed by a dead man's
switch. Or you could use Shamir's Secret Sharing and give keys to your
wife, lawyer, friend, dog etc.

On Wed, 28 Apr 2021, 13:36 Onno Benschop, <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> Over the past few years I've been attempting to resolve a problem that is
> only getting larger. I have countless online accounts, some of which are
> paid for and linked to credit cards and bank accounts.
>
> These accounts are not just "end user" accounts, but things like a domain
> account, the hosting for a fleet of websites, online photo storage,
> backups, client data and resources, email, calendaring, media, streaming,
> etc.
>
> What systems have you put in place to ensure continuity?
>
> Note that this goes well beyond password sharing, a whole topic in and of
> itself, this is about how stuff is linked together, what belongs to which
> account, how is it paid for, etc. etc.
>
> I note that even if I were to document this accurately, it would be out of
> date almost immediately. I created three new accounts for services in the
> past three hours alone.
>
> Feedback and discussion welcome.
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