What happens to your online life when you die?

[zridling]

CodeTrucker got me thinking with this post recently: Is your online life in your will? Then by coincidence, Time magazine posted: How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead

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[tinjaw]

I am thinking that I will declare an "Online Executor" to take care of my virtual affairs when I die. Maybe I will provide a private key and passphrase in my will and an encrypted document with directions of what I want done. Maybe go so far as to have python scripts set up to run.

Sounds like an interesting topic for a master's thesis in computer law too.

[ljbirns]

Maybe this will help    http://www.deathswitch.com/

Lew

[40hz]

Maybe this will help    http://www.deathswitch.com/

Lew

Hope they're not serious about the "patent pending" they mention on their website. There's enough prior art (e.g. Dead Man's Switch, etc.) that only the most brain dead of patent examiners would be dumb enough to issue them one.

Hmmm...on second thought...