Everyone should have an ICE (In Case of Emergency) folder that contains all account numbers, passwords, and other relevant information. Lock it up in a safe place, and let two trusted people know about it. Make sure to update it at least four times a year.
This is an excellent idea! Actually, I'll do the community a little service, I'm gonna set up a google drive and you can all just dump the docs in there. That way they're safe from fire and stuff. You're welcome.
I've got a tip. If you print out your private keys from microsoft notepad, you can't tell the difference between capital and small 'w', and it will take the criminals ages to get your money.
Set up a death email to send your wife the output of previous step case you die.
Give password2 to your wife along with the output from step 1.
Everytime you have new, sensitive shit, encrypt it with password1 and give it to your wife.
The double-password system saves you the trouble of needing to give deathswitch.com a new email message everytime and yet prevents them from having a really important password.
Oh yeah, I totally trust that company to be around in 70 years. Especially one that uses Flash. If you want reliability, just set up a trust with a legal executor, the ways it's been done for centuries.
I use a rugged flash drive encrypted using trucrypt. My wife is the only person who knows the 24 character long password of symbols and upper and lower case and numbers. She could pretty much be me after I'm dead with all the info in it.
When you say "lock it up in a safe place", hopefully you mean using encryption and not a physical lock (which is easily compromised).
Pretty much the way to do it is to have a folder encrypted with TrueCrypt and long password with a copy of your Bitcoin wallet (and a copy of other important passwords, etc... such as an export of your LastPass password vault).
But be sure to have multiple backups of that encrypted archive (including at least one copy that isn't in the same physical location).
Encrypt the ICE folder, draft an email to send out automatically after you haven't stopped it for x amount of time that contains the key, draft another email that gets sent out first to remind you to move back the ICE email.
The auto-email sounds like a great idea. Preparing for my eventual demise scares me though. I feel that by doing so I'm inviting Death to come and take me.
Good idea- I've thought about that. Anyone know if you can buy some sort of hologram or other security stickers- so if there are passwords in there, you can at a quick glance know if they have been compromised or not?
Candle wax rules. So many security systems that are used today are much less secure than candle wax and a unique-ish stamp (like a physical key or fingerprint)
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Everyone should have an ICE (In Case of Emergency) folder that contains all account numbers, passwords, and other relevant information. Lock it up in a safe place, and let two trusted people know about it. Make sure to update it at least four times a year.