If you're not around to unlock all the digital data you take such care to secure, who will be able to access it, and how?
March 31, 2020
Preparing For The Ultimate 🏴 Disaster
Making technology convenient
and secure is a problem we deal with daily. We make trade-offs and use techniques to hopefully strike an appropriate balance.
A more difficult dilemma that we rarely think about, however, is death or serious illness or injury. If something were to happen to you, would the people you leave behind be able to access the information they need? What happens to your encrypted data, online accounts, social media, online finances, pictures, and digital-whatever-else if you're not around to access it?
I hear regularly from people
frantically trying to access important, sentimental, or critical data that a recently deceased or incapacitated friend or family member has locked up tightly.
It's not particularly pleasant to think about, but with all the security measures we put into place to keep bad people out, it's worth having a plan for letting good people in.
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