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I'd go even further than that. I trust my wife with all of my passwords and as far as I'm concerned she can go ahead and use any of them at any time for anythin

by sofal 17y ago

I'd go even further than that. I trust my wife with all of my passwords and as far as I'm concerned she can go ahead and use any of them at any time for anything she wants. It's really not a big deal. I married her, for heaven's sake. What kind of secrets do you keep from your own wife? Sounds like a Hollywood marriage.

netsp 17y ago
I've heard anecdotally that the majority of people with assets (not necessarily a huge amount) hide assets from their spouses. That can be cash/stocks, but very often it's property or even companies.
- diN0bot 17y ago
  You must of talked to a lot of people ;-)
  - Devilboy 17y ago
    ... must have talked to
  - netsp 17y ago
    The anecdotes come from bank tellers. They 'talk' to a lot of people.
pyre 17y ago
Things to consider: * If he has certain things that he doesn't want his wife to see he should encrypt them separately and not give her access, even in the event of his death since they are probably things he still wouldn't want her to see (secret sicko porn collection or sex chat logs or something) * Don't be so quick to dismiss him has having a 'Hollywood marriage.' There are plenty of marriages that start out fine and with both partners completely trusting one another that eventually fail. Preventing some finiance information (or whatever) from being viewed by your wife could be a good thing (for you) in case she makes up her mind to divorce you; but decides to peek at your finances before actually telling you about it. [Before you start talking about trusting your wife, realize that people can (and do) change and not always for the better] * If someone in government really wanted his laptop then jurisdictions -- even foreign ones -- wouldn't matter because they wouldn't necessarily be using the court system. * Using something like TrueCrypt with a hidden partition could work for him so that he could keep some stuff from his wife/others while leaving the most innocuous stuff behind a password that she knows. [ That said, sometimes even the innocuous stuff can be used against you -- i.e. in court ]
baddox 17y ago
Your spouse is still a human being, so you can really only trust them to the extent that you can trust the most trustworthy human beings. Of course, there should be unparalleled trust between spouses, but there are still times when a password should be secret. Passwords to resources regarding one spouse's employment shouldn't be shared with the other: if not for the trust issue than simply for preventing liability. Also, while I might trust my spouse not to deliberately abuse any password-protected resources of mine, I might not trust the security-awareness of my spouse, e.g. carelessly saving passwords in browsers on public or shared machines or simply underestimating the importance of password secrecy.
- frossie 17y ago
  Passwords to resources regarding one spouse's employment shouldn't be shared with the other I totally agree with this: however passwords/passphrases related to my employment are not something I worry about in case of my untimely death - they are known (or can be reset) by my employer.
  - baddox 17y ago
    True, that example drifted off topic, but I was responding to the notion that there should be NO secrets between spouses. I suppose there's a difference between a secret and simple nondisclosure. Your spouse should probably know that there's something you simply can't or don't need to tell them because of security reasons.
pfedor 17y ago
It doesn't have to be about distrusting a person as much as distrusting that the person is security aware. E.g., most non-technical people I know have no problem with logging into their Gmail from internet cafes. You may be 100% that your wife would never screw intentionally you over and yet not so eager to share your passwords with her for that reason. Sure, you can teach her not to login from random computers, and then the difference between http:// http:// and https:// https:// and what it means when the browser says that the certificate cannot be verified, but it can turn out to be a quite large project.
khafra 17y ago
I pity your surprise-birthday-party-less wife.

by sofal 17y ago

netsp 17y ago

I've heard anecdotally that the majority of people with assets (not necessarily a huge amount) hide assets from their spouses. That can be cash/stocks, but very often it's property or even companies.

diN0bot 17y ago
You must of talked to a lot of people ;-)
- Devilboy 17y ago
  ... must have talked to
- netsp 17y ago
  The anecdotes come from bank tellers. They 'talk' to a lot of people.

pyre 17y ago

Things to consider: * If he has certain things that he doesn't want his wife to see he should encrypt them separately and not give her access, even in the event of his death since they are probably things he still wouldn't want her to see (secret sicko porn collection or sex chat logs or something) * Don't be so quick to dismiss him has having a 'Hollywood marriage.' There are plenty of marriages that start out fine and with both partners completely trusting one another that eventually fail. Preventing some finiance information (or whatever) from being viewed by your wife could be a good thing (for you) in case she makes up her mind to divorce you; but decides to peek at your finances before actually telling you about it. [Before you start talking about trusting your wife, realize that people can (and do) change and not always for the better] * If someone in government really wanted his laptop then jurisdictions -- even foreign ones -- wouldn't matter because they wouldn't necessarily be using the court system. * Using something like TrueCrypt with a hidden partition could work for him so that he could keep some stuff from his wife/others while leaving the most innocuous stuff behind a password that she knows. [ That said, sometimes even the innocuous stuff can be used against you -- i.e. in court ]

baddox 17y ago

Your spouse is still a human being, so you can really only trust them to the extent that you can trust the most trustworthy human beings. Of course, there should be unparalleled trust between spouses, but there are still times when a password should be secret. Passwords to resources regarding one spouse's employment shouldn't be shared with the other: if not for the trust issue than simply for preventing liability. Also, while I might trust my spouse not to deliberately abuse any password-protected resources of mine, I might not trust the security-awareness of my spouse, e.g. carelessly saving passwords in browsers on public or shared machines or simply underestimating the importance of password secrecy.

frossie 17y ago
Passwords to resources regarding one spouse's employment shouldn't be shared with the other I totally agree with this: however passwords/passphrases related to my employment are not something I worry about in case of my untimely death - they are known (or can be reset) by my employer.
- baddox 17y ago
  True, that example drifted off topic, but I was responding to the notion that there should be NO secrets between spouses. I suppose there's a difference between a secret and simple nondisclosure. Your spouse should probably know that there's something you simply can't or don't need to tell them because of security reasons.

pfedor 17y ago

It doesn't have to be about distrusting a person as much as distrusting that the person is security aware. E.g., most non-technical people I know have no problem with logging into their Gmail from internet cafes. You may be 100% that your wife would never screw intentionally you over and yet not so eager to share your passwords with her for that reason. Sure, you can teach her not to login from random computers, and then the difference between http:// http:// and https:// https:// and what it means when the browser says that the certificate cannot be verified, but it can turn out to be a quite large project.

khafra 17y ago

I pity your surprise-birthday-party-less wife.