I heard a number of stories of people passing away, and their loved ones have to figure out how to navigate their digital “estate”. Things like email credentials, bank accounts, crypto wallets, logins for personal devices, etc. For example, I have a good friend whose husband passed away unexpectedly, and she couldn’t get Apple to unlock his laptop for months, until she provided a death certificate and jumped through additional hoops.

I fell down a rabbit hole of checklists, methods, and technology, and was curious what other people were doing to leave digital assets behind. I’m looking for something that will be privacy-oriented, but still provide access to people who may not be very tech-savvy.

What do other people do? Especially from a technology perspective?

  • WhatsHerBucketOP
    3·
    3 days ago

    I am a little biased toward 1Password, and they have a guide that has really good points. But in the end, they say to print out their “Emergency Kit” and store it will your will/estate. So, not much better than leaving a password behind (or any other shared secret). I guess I’ll have to set up some sort of irl treasure hunt…

    • ccunning
      8·
      3 days ago

      In case you hadn’t seen the news.

      I’ve been a paying customer and advocate of 1Password for over a decade but I’ve made the switch to something else.

      • WhatsHerBucketOP
        4·
        3 days ago

        What is the something else? As far as I can tell, all the password managers suck. Just seemed to me that 1Password sucked less.

        • ccunning
          9·
          3 days ago

          For me, I narrowed it down to Bitwarden and Proton Pass.

          I found it very hard to test both in parallel so I ended up just kind of making a feel-based call. I think either would have been fine, but I don’t think either is as nice as 1Password.

          Bitwarden supports transferring passkeys from other password managers (on iOS anyway) but Proton Pass doesn’t. That was going to be the deciding factor for me, but the transfer failed (I believe this was a failure at the OS level; not Bitwarden’s fault) so I ultimately went with Proton Pass because I felt the interface was a little cleaner.

          • tea@lemmy.today
            2·
            2 days ago

            Vaultwarden if you can manage a selfhosted option. It allows you to set a specified account to be able to take yours over after a delay (in case you die)

          • zeb420
            1·
            2 days ago

            I started using Bitwarden only a few months before Proton pass came out. I want to switch, but I’m so lazy. Having the email alias feature built into the password manager would make my life so much easier.