[HN Gopher] Show HN: WeExpire.org - Notes readable only after yo...
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       Show HN: WeExpire.org - Notes readable only after your death
        
       Author : ciccionamente
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-03-08 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | null4bl3 wrote:
       | So a service for school shooters and their manifests?
        
         | roundandround wrote:
         | I don't see what advantage this has over snailmail to
         | themselves?
         | 
         | I think the most likely nefarious thing is the question of
         | intentionally blocking aliveness checks. If the Satoshi heir
         | waited for his keys from this what element would he spend a few
         | million interfering with to get his inheritance early?
        
       | davidcollantes wrote:
       | I have used https://www.deadmantracker.com since creation. This
       | one seems to be similar but, perhaps, less intrusive--I have to
       | check-in on DMT each week. Neat. The important part is
       | permanence, if the service is to be trusted, and to be useful.
        
         | ciccionamente wrote:
         | Thank you. Dead Man Tracker is a nice tool, however it
         | completely relies on constant email notifications in order to
         | understand if something bad happened (a more complex system to
         | maintain). Also all the personal data is stored in a database
         | that could be breached.
        
       | KomoD wrote:
       | * or if you are seriously injured.
        
         | ciccionamente wrote:
         | Yep, that's true! Unfortunately HN title would have been too
         | long with that.
        
       | c_ris wrote:
       | Interesting idea. If, for some reason, your site goes down, will
       | a note still be readable?
        
         | ciccionamente wrote:
         | The emergency note can be readable only via WeExpire, and
         | that's for security reasons - you always need to be notified
         | that someone is trying to access your emergency note.
         | 
         | As any other platform WeExpire could temporarily go down, but
         | it will be always back online before than the minimum
         | inactivity time you can set up in your emergency note (1 day).
        
       | telesilla wrote:
       | Hm please don't trust a service such as this over a decent legal
       | firm, you can find always a reliable solicitor / legal support in
       | your neighborhood.
        
         | ValentineC wrote:
         | One problem with "reliable solicitors" is that it's entirely
         | possible for their firm to go out of business too, with few, if
         | any, repercussions for the proprietors.
         | 
         | I'd prefer to trust something like a self-hosted Vaultwarden
         | instance [1] with emergency access [2]. Maybe with redundancy
         | even.
         | 
         | [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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         | [2] https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/
        
           | dvngnt_ wrote:
           | true but I trust a well reviewed estate lawyer over any SaaS
           | product
        
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       | kobalsky wrote:
       | Interesting stuff if you find this thing useful:
       | 
       | Google's Inactive Account Manager:
       | https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en
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       | Shamir's Secret Sharing:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing
        
       | emrecoban wrote:
       | Nice idea!
        
         | ciccionamente wrote:
         | Thx.
        
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