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One of my startup ideas is the creation of a virtual assistant service that would help out in situations like the one described. You’d give full access/permissi
by NKosmatos 4y ago
One of my startup ideas is the creation of a virtual assistant service that would help out in situations like the one described.
You’d give full access/permission to this service (major security and selling point drawback), and in case you didn’t respond it would manage your accounts according to your wishes (transferring of ownership, closure of accounts, setting up of payments, funds allocation…).
The easiest and more practical way is to have a couple of friends/relatives/spouse be aware of your wishes and leave detailed instructions on what to do.
The dead man’s switch is a very clever alternative way of doing this.
- mathattack 4y agoThe challenge is this is a single point of failure. I do remember my old man continually reminding me where his papers are.
- acwan93 4y agoFeel like there's no real difference now. People today who don't use (or don't want to use) password managers keep their passwords/credentials in the Notes app or some combination of "most used symbols and numbers".
- asim 4y agoSo my question is how you trust a service like this. I've thought of similar but each time I see someone with that solution I'm reluctant to use it. If Google or someone as big came up with that I'd have more trust in them given the reputation and scale they've built over a number of years but new entrants will struggle. All I can think is you need a really well known way to create trust. Maybe starting with an open source solution.