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A comment on Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of your users?.

Re:Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of y... by jsqu99 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @11:16AM (#22786045)
Pro Tip: keep the deceased's phone active as long as possible so that, even if you have all their passwords, you might still need it for 2FA.

My father was murdered last year, and his iPhone X will be kept forever in evidence.

It has made dealing w/ all of his affairs very challenging as Verizon gave away his number as soon as we informed them about the situation.

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Re:Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of y... by londons_explore on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:53AM (#22790993)
If the number was given to someone else, that's actually a pretty good outcome. Just call the new number owner and ask them to forward you a few sms tokens.
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Re:Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of y... by imhoguy on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:20AM (#22791293)
Hmm, isn't that how scamers operate?
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