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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity?

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 7, 2012 @05:28AM from the more-mysterious-to-go-all-jason-bourne dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the event of my untimely demise, my wife and family will need access to all of my private data (email, phone, laptop password, SSN, etc) and financial accounts and passwords (banks, 401(k), mortgage, insurance, etc). What's the best way to securely store all that data knowing the data is somewhat volatile (e.g. password changes) and also that someone else who is not technically savvy will need to access the most up to date version of it? Suggestions include a printed copy in a safe deposit box, an encrypted file, a secure server in the cloud, or maybe a commercial product."

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Punched Cards by Anne+Thwacks · 2012-07-07 05:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Dump the whole lot to punched cards. No one will read punched cards unless they are desperate, but if they are desperate, the technology can be built from scratch.
If in Europe, you might prefer paper tape, but I doubt it.
PS Anyone got an open source program to print card images onto A4 paper? (readable by Lottery hardware)

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post its by yorgasor · 2012-07-07 05:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Easy, just write them on post-its and attach it to your monitor at work. It's the most secure location there is.

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If RPGs have taught me anything... by dadioflex · 2012-07-07 05:57 · Score: 4, Funny

...it's that your valuable information should be transcribed onto a special medallion, which is then quartered with each quarter piece buried in a deadly dungeon in a far flung corner of the land. That's what passed for "Cloud" storage in my day. (yes yes I know.)
Esay by Yoda222 · 2012-07-07 06:01 · Score: 2, Funny

I put everything on megaupload
Re:why care? by fustakrakich · 2012-07-07 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Hm, can you name for me all the famous nihilists who did something other than be raving, depressed nihilists?
Does it matter?

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Slashdot by cowboy76Spain · 2012-07-07 06:22 · Score: 3, Funny

My way is getting the info into an /. article.
After that, the editors will take care that it is periodically available again as if it was a new article.

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Re:why care? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-07 06:26 · Score: 2, Funny

So have her "taken care of" before you die... make sure it looks like an accident so they won't suspect you.
Re:Easy, look at what was already posted here. by boaworm · 2012-07-07 07:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Not even a year ago, almost the same thing.
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/01/1414234/ask-slashdot-how-to-securely-share-passwords
The first post in this thread:
why care? (Score:1)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 07, @01:29PM (#40576481)
you're dead
The first post in the 1 year old thread:
Dont worry about it (Score:5, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2011, @01:03PM (#37909302)
You'll be dead.
Anyone sees a pattern? :-)

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