[HN Gopher] Digital Legacy
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       Digital Legacy
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-11-09 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (digital-legacy.apple.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (digital-legacy.apple.com)
        
       | adamredwoods wrote:
       | This is probably useful for expected outcomes, but maybe not the
       | more tragic, sudden deaths. Giving parents a chance to deal with
       | tragic circumstances, please offer alternative ways, such as
       | death certificate and family identification, could be done with a
       | notarized service.
        
       | kevinsundar wrote:
       | To save your family from having to deal with this please use a
       | password manager.
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       | Its super easy to write down the master password somewhere where
       | they can easily find it.
        
         | qqqqqqqqq7 wrote:
         | Yeah but then they'd find out what I'm...in to
        
       | _carbyau_ wrote:
       | Definitely a much needed service.
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       | OTOH, I hope it is secure because it will absolutely be an attack
       | vector.
        
       | wanderer_ wrote:
       | Ouch. I guess this has been around long enough, we must also
       | assume the sad duties of sorting through digital belongings, too.
        
         | xpe wrote:
         | Yes, dealing with these situations is hard.
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         | But relatively speaking, I'd rather be able to easily access
         | photos and so on (if granted permission) than not.
         | 
         | And hopefully there will be many good memories to look at.
        
       | judge2020 wrote:
       | This coincides with today's release of 15.2 Beta 2 which adds
       | legacy contacts:
       | 
       | https://www.iclarified.com/83330/apple-releases-ios-152-beta...
        
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