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Your Digital Inheritance?
eldavojohn writes "I wrote a journal entry musing on the idea of passing on accounts and digitally stored information from generation to generation. Has anyone done this or inherited anything? Does anyone else plan to do this? Is there a slip of paper in your deposit box at the bank with websites, account names and passwords?"
well, uhh, maybe that's a bad idea after all.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
That reminds me of the first episode of the BBC sitcom Coupling. A character, Susan, is trying to find out a little about this guy she's interested so she asks her coworker who's a friend of his. She asks how well he knows him. He says "We're porn buddies."
"Is that some sort of code, were you two in prison together or something."
"No, no no, once upon a time we exchanged flat keys."
"Are you sure this isn't some sort of code."
"In the event of his death, I run over and remove all his porn before his family can come and find it. And he'd do the same for me."
"Let me get this straight. If he dies, you destory all his porn?"
"Who said anything about destroy?"
"You can't seriously mean you'd keep the porn!"
"Well, that's sort of a fringe benefit."
I didn't get that exactly right, but it was close enough.
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