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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.
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.
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.
Well.. a study found that the most common password is... tata~ "password".
So at least you know what password NOT to choose!
Online backup with Mozy, sounds like Ozzie, but more!
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...
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
hehe i agree, i can just imagine my tombstone reading "R.I.P -1 troll"
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.
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?
My password is my cat's name (x6>B8e@7w_4). I rename it every 30 days.
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Nah, your tombstone would read: "Netcraft confirms it, Cynikal is dead".
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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?
Maybe it's bacause they have Good Interviewers (TM)?
Interviewer> Question 2: what's your password?
User> Password?
Interviewer> Thank you sir.