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What Happens To Your Data When You Die?
dacarr writes "Your data - that is, the personal web pages and projects you have worked on to make the 'net a better place - are presumably password protected. But sooner or later the time will come when you take that last breath, and with you goes your passwords, but not your data. It's still there for your benefactors to deal with. And while many famous people who are no longer with us (e.g., Douglas Adams or Chuck Jones) have a staff for this, well, many of us don't. As such, have you planned for the hereafter, and if so, how?"
It goes to the spirit in the sky, of course.
Fuck you, you whiny douchebags! .. remember, this doesnt apply 'till I'm dead.
Aw, shucks.. You can have it now.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I just use my first name and digit 1 for all the accounts I have that require passwords.
Sooner or later they will discover a vulnerability.
...mine goes to the Recycle Bin.
"Dad. Mom. I'm only gonna say this once. For the sake of your children, please encrypt your pr0n. We really don't wanna know."
I have a script that if I don't use my computer for longer than 5 hours it assumes I have died and sends / to /dev/null.
I eat a vial with all my passwords. In my will I state that the Medical Examiner has to remove it from my gut. Every few days I pass it, wash it and swallow it again. :)
When you get busted, we split your warez.
- RustyTaco
I don't have a life already and I'm doing just fine.
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
Don't worry, the Great Modem in the Sky will see to it that your data gets safe passage across the River Styx, so don't worry about your data.
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
Become very, very, very rich.
Adopt a favored staff member.
Post-mortem involuntary brain transplants (IANAL, but this could be deemed illegal in your jurisdiction. One of the places where that fabulous wealth will help to smooth things over.)
Use your new body as the plaything that it is.
Repeat after it is worn and haggard.
Suicide is the coward's way out. Why kill yourself and end up in Hell when you can get sweet vengeance for the same price?
My data knows exactly what to do when I die. Oh my yes. Ever vigelant it stands waiting for word that I am no longer living. When that day come you will know. You will all know. MWHAHAHAHA!!!
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
Where do bad files go when they die? /dev/null/ to wait,
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly.
They go to a folder of
Won't see em again 'till 2038.
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
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word.
Linda who literally busts her butt to run everything
Really? In the course of administering her father's estate, she's broken her pelvis or torn her gluteals? Wow. That's dedication.
remember those commercials?
Perhaps someone could rig one of those devices and get it running Linux. Then when you die, it connects to your website using XML-RPC, and posts your death announcement.
It could work.
Those smug bastards in the future can go screw thems selves what have they done for me?
...if I die and you need a password. If I'm not available, just leave a message at the sound of the heavenly choir, and I'll get back to you.
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
Ahem, just hope my grandfather doesn't read slashdot... Not much danger in that though.
That's what you think... sonny!
At least you didn't have to go to the video store with your hearing impaired grandfather and help him buy his porn. Now that was embarrassing. The guy at the counter yelling the titles to the dirty old man while the old ladies where eying him up and down. It got worse when the clerk whispered in my ear that my grandfather had great taste in porn.
Good thing I wasn't the one who had to go through his personal effects when he passed.
Scotty will find a way.
That's why a true geek keeps all his important data on punch cards. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go rearrange my basement, the safe.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Doesn't matter to me. All my passwords are on a yellow post-it note attached to my monitor.
Get a sexy sounding woman to record your outgoing message.
That should make her stop, or it may drive her insane.
It is entombed along with me in gold CD-Rs, along with my wife, secondary wives, concubines, treasure, and guards in a vast pyramid of my own design. They shall all accompany me to the afterlife.
It's a big job and somebody has to do it! So I'll take on the task. Simply email me all your passwords and personal information such as credit card numbers and whatnot. I'll even get started early by familiarizing myself with your data so when die I'll know what's worth using err sharing with the world.
People roasting in Hell don't think about computer files.
It's ok - someone once came up with a "dead mans switch" that automatically deletes your pr0n collection if you don't reset it periodically. The name escapes me.
my grandfather had great taste in porn.
Good thing I wasn't the one who had to go through his personal effects when he passed.
So, who did inherit his porn collection?
You can't take the sky from me...
Wouldn't a butt plug solve the problem?
It's been 11 seconds since you hit 'reply'! Yay
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to phish...
"As such, have you planned for the hereafter, and if so, how?"
Three words- Windows Task Scheduler. I've got it set to format the day after I die.
Bury me with my hard drives.
DEY DOOK AR JODS!
To my dearest brother, I bequeath all of the binary "ones" stored within the hard drives of my home computer, to be delivered sequentially, one page per day, 5,000 "ones" per page, over a period of ten years.
To my dearest friend, I bequeath all of the binary "zeros" stored within the hard drives of my home computer, to be delivered sequentially, one page per day, 5,000 "zeros" per page, over a period of ten years.
After dissemination, the hard drive is to be digitally "erased" and shall be bequeathed to my dearest father, to whom I shall also bequeath the computer that is attached to said hard drives.
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Heck, if you are really good you can write the program to simulate your daily digital life.
Heck thats real easy on Slashdot. I am going to write a script that posts the following posts randomly in various discussions:
1. Cowboy Neal jokes
2. In Soviet Russia jokes
3. 1-2-3-profit jokes
My karma will keep improving (even after I am dead!). And with my amazing Karma I will be reborn as Neo in my next life.
Or better yet, store your porn on an encrypted disk image with a password that doesn't match any of your other passwords. They could spend hours going through your computer and never know you had a thing for horses...
I've got more mod points and GMail invi
In retrospect I probably shouldv'e posted that anonymously :/
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Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Why does death have to be depressing for all involved? Craft an elaborate game in your data that's complex enough to take (at least) weeks to fully unravel, such that if anyone starts getting into it while you're still alive, you'll know about it.
The only personal data I really care about when I die is my organic computer's (aka brain).
Instead of wishing or hoping that it gets ftp'd by wireless connection to the big sysop in the sky (if he's there), I'd instead rather have it copied and placed on a new machine.
I'm from the future, and the women are not nearly as hot after the nuclear winter you insensitive clod!
What, no one else uses the GNU Public Will?
RMS would probably insist that my proper title would be GNU/Sam.
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