IBM slipped up and let Gates keep rights to DOS. This unexpectedly made him a billionaire. Not his smarts. Being a billionaire he was able to keep a crappy company afloat with predatory tactics. The first edition of The Road Ahead hardly mentioned the Internet. When others were already well on their way with it. A year later, he finally caught on, and in the paperback edition there were, as I recall, three chapters on the Internet. A leader? No! In my following of Microsoft, they have stolen or bought up every important new product, and usually make a mess of it until the N-teenth version. Bill Gates a visionary? I laugh every time I heat that. When he makes predictions I turn the page or turn the channel. Nothing interesting to read or hear.
http://www.absolute.com/en/lojackforlaptops/home.aspx
This company (based in Canada as I recall) has software you install on a laptop (could be a desktop) that logs where you log in each time you connect to the Internet. You can log in to their server and see it yourself. If it is stolen, they promise legal assistance to get the computer back. At a seminar years ago, they said that they relied on a network of retired law enforcement people, among others. And they said that usually when someone came to their door and insisted they had a stolen computer in their house, they usually returned it, saying they'd bought it on ebay, rather than face unknown consequences. They also have some relationship with ISPs apparently to get home addresses. Anyway, consider them for your next computer. Maybe give them a call or email with your information and ask if you can pay them to "work their magic". You seem to have the data they need. (and no, they aren't limited to Canada for retrievals, they also do the USA).
It seems to me the accounts are the deceased's property, and could be subject to the family getting a power of attorney over them. I don't know the precedents, but it sounds like they would exist. Having the power of attorney over the deceased's property should compel any agency to "give up the goods".
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IBM slipped up and let Gates keep rights to DOS. This unexpectedly made him a billionaire. Not his smarts. Being a billionaire he was able to keep a crappy company afloat with predatory tactics. The first edition of The Road Ahead hardly mentioned the Internet. When others were already well on their way with it. A year later, he finally caught on, and in the paperback edition there were, as I recall, three chapters on the Internet. A leader? No! In my following of Microsoft, they have stolen or bought up every important new product, and usually make a mess of it until the N-teenth version. Bill Gates a visionary? I laugh every time I heat that. When he makes predictions I turn the page or turn the channel. Nothing interesting to read or hear.
http://www.absolute.com/en/lojackforlaptops/home.aspx This company (based in Canada as I recall) has software you install on a laptop (could be a desktop) that logs where you log in each time you connect to the Internet. You can log in to their server and see it yourself. If it is stolen, they promise legal assistance to get the computer back. At a seminar years ago, they said that they relied on a network of retired law enforcement people, among others. And they said that usually when someone came to their door and insisted they had a stolen computer in their house, they usually returned it, saying they'd bought it on ebay, rather than face unknown consequences. They also have some relationship with ISPs apparently to get home addresses. Anyway, consider them for your next computer. Maybe give them a call or email with your information and ask if you can pay them to "work their magic". You seem to have the data they need. (and no, they aren't limited to Canada for retrievals, they also do the USA).
It seems to me the accounts are the deceased's property, and could be subject to the family getting a power of attorney over them. I don't know the precedents, but it sounds like they would exist. Having the power of attorney over the deceased's property should compel any agency to "give up the goods".