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Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords
A reader writes "Looks like if you die, Yahoo won't grant access to family members. I know I've enjoyed reading my grandfather's letters from WWII, this could be a huge loss of history if other ISP's have the same policy." MJK points out that Slashdot has explored the notion of what happens to your data after you die.
They should try the password 'b00bi3s'
Anything of mine worth reading is already +5 Funny.
someone contact the BSD family and tell them to leave a post it note of their passwords!
yet another reason to make your passwords the names of your children!
2 1337 4 u!
This is slashdot, you can trust us.
i can't imagine the shame my family would experience if i were remembered by some of my slashdot comments
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
When I die, I wouldn't want any one to find my pr0n. Someone needs to create encrypted mpeg/divx.
Or maybe I should request that I be buried with it to take to the afterlife. "Please bury me with the harddrive with the folder name 'Stuff'".
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Grandma: Oh my god, how many emails about viagra did he have?
Ohhh, I better contact this poor Mr. Mbutu and see if I can help him out. I didn't realize pop had friends in Nigeria.
Look at all these money making schemes? How come I never saw any of this money?
Oh dear, I had no idea pop was into asian porn...
My my, it looks like pop was corresponding with someone about Vicodin.
Perhaps its better he died...
yes that is my property, not my parents property.
it reminds of that service on a SNL. an emergancy crew to clean up the bongs and sex stuff at your house when you die.
Hi, this is identity0's son. Dad passed away last night, and he wrote in his will to tell you that you're a frickin' moron. Your idea will never work.
Have a nice day, sir.
The password to the shield is....1 2 3 4 5
USB = Undead Serial Bus.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
Yes, she really is great. Every night she comes over and we have awesome sex. When we're done, we read your email.
Thats touching, but two things come to mind
1) Hey hot stuff, I am gonna ride you all night long like a dog in heat
2) Yes my wonderful lover. Our 30 year relationship, cheating on my husband has been great. He doesn't even realize that my child is really yours.
While this is worst case scenario - man it would definitly be throwing salt on the wound.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Now I have to change my password.
paintball
Doesn't the Constitution prevented people from being forced to inherit their parents' flamewars?
paintball
Set-up a cron job on your desktop machine that periodically queries Google and looks for your obit. If found, it connects to your bank and sends a check for $1000 to your worst enemy. It then mails said enemy a (pre-dated) message (CC'ing yourself) saying: "I'm sending you the last FINAL payment. Don't try to blackmail me again!". Next it e-mails your mail ID and password to your family and finally the script erases itself. :-)
[Insert pithy quote here]
And that's the moment when danheskett and taustin figured out they were friends in RL. "Dude, you're on /.!"
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?
What, so my girlfriend has to unencrypt my erotic email to read it?
Talk about a turn on. *cough*
let everyone burn for my sins
Hey, JESUS? Is that YOU, Jesus?
Oh wait... never mind.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have a box saying 'password for once ur dead' on web signup forms.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?