What happens to your emails after you die

Re:What happens to your emails after you die by me_me_me on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:20PM (#22559212)

The easiest thing i can think of is:

Touch a file on login.

Cron checks if file is X days/months/years old. Also I would add two offset. First triggers earlier with reminder to self (taking extra long holidays while forgetting about cronjob), second is actual dead-man-switch when you are probably incapacitated or dead.

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Re:What happens to your emails after you die by Razengan on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:53PM (#22559638)

Couldn’t that be exploited by holding the person hostage, making their dead-man’s-switches fire while they’re alive?

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Re:What happens to your emails after you die by nkrisc on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:10PM (#22560575)

Yeah, sure, if they know about it at all. Also consider your threat model: are you worried your family will kidnap you to get access to your accounts? If you think they would, maybe you need a different plan. I mean otherwise, if they've got you kidnapped anyway, they could just beat the password out of you.

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Re:What happens to your emails after you die by bryanrasmussen on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:31PM (#22560792)

If they beat the password out of you, you give the bad password that causes email to be sent to police telling them who is holding you hostage.

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Re:What happens to your emails after you die by LinuxBender on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:06PM (#22559792)

It can and that is part of the plan. If I am compromised, regardless of by whom, I want others to know.

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Re:What happens to your emails after you die by me_me_me on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:34AM (#22566186)

I think the use case for this system was getting hit by the bus.

And in that ensuring that all your legal matters will be easy on your family.

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