The Justin Case file

[mdlbear]

(This bit of nonfiction is being written in response to recent events; it also seems to fit the "communication" part of the theme, "Community & Communication", of this month's Crowdfunding Creative Jam)

Someone died recently and left his widow with a problem: his computer's hard drive

Comments

[siliconshaman]

If you're really paranoid, store all that info in Keepass on a thumbdrive with a seperate OS, and make sure your family knows the password to that. [but set it to something obvious, like your name and birthdate in case they forget.]

[mdlbear]

Thanks -- Keepass looks like something I could use. And there's already a Debian package for it.

[siliconshaman]

Yup, it's a handy little thing. Between that for off-line storage, last-pass for online stuff and truecrypt for building encrypted files and/or drives, I'm pretty well covered.

password managers

[lolmac]

I've adopted the password manager Dashlane, which includes an onboard feature for sharing selected items with selected others, and an emergency feature to unlock everything for a designated contact. (I believe LastPass has similar features.) Dashlane updates universally in real time, so the data stays up to date when I change passwords. In addition to the emergency feature, my wife and I have each other's Dashlane master passwords stored in our own Dashlane vaults.

Re: password managers

[mdlbear]

Interesting -- this looks like a good password keeper for someone who doesn't use Linux.

Re: password managers

[jcfiala]

That's always my problem - at work I use Linux, my phone is Android, at home I use Windows 7.