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I don't understand why you'd want someone to dig through most of your digital stuff later. Do you think your dad really wanted that? My laptop and phone are sec
by warner25 3y ago
I don't understand why you'd want someone to dig through most of your digital stuff later. Do you think your dad really wanted that? My laptop and phone are secured with strong passwords and full disk encryption, a legitimate and intentional method of data destruction once I'm no longer in possession of them.
Our priceless family photo collection is organized in Flickr (the only account for which my wife and I share login credentials) and backed up to an unencrypted external hard drive in my desk drawer. At most, my wife and kids would lose only the last few weeks of photos that are still on my phone.
My wife has her own login credentials for our joint financial accounts. For accounts in only my name, nobody should be logging in with my credentials after I'm dead anyway; there's a proper method for notifying the institution of my death and having assets transferred to beneficiaries.
Our most important personal and financial documents (which include a listing of financial assets and institutions) are on paper in a box and / or in a shared Google Drive folder which, again, my wife can access with her own credentials.
I think it's important to be organized with the stuff that you want to pass on, but not important to make sure that everything is passed on.