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Vaultwarden can send a link to a person of your choosing with all your passwords if you do not login within a certain amount of time. This is key.... Mortgage, banks, wifi, email, utilities, credit cards..... This list goes on.
Had a friend pass and his wife could not cancel some things without a death certificate, even then she had a hard time.
This sounds great, thank you for this gem of a tip
I misunderstood this feature. For some reason the way it was worded, I thought it was more of an "I'm about to die, let me establish this other user with access to my vault"
You might be interested in https://github.com/ItalyPaleAle/hereditas
It's a deadman switch that houses your docs/data, encrypted, on a self hosted static website.
what to immediately nuke
This scenario is the one that you have to approach differently than the others. The only way to approach with this scenario and be reasonable sure it'll go the way you want, is to have the default state be inaccessible. i.e. everything that you want to be "nuked" has to be already in an encrypted state that only you are able to access. This way, the nuked state is the default state if you aren't around to grant access.
Yes, we done this in 1985, using state-of-art 40-bits encryption. It's totally safe, because it's commercial grade encryption system.
Did you have a point you were making?
Most drives nowadays are SED enabled, you could just set a random password and lock them
I think the right name for this kind of thing would be dead man switch
I recently thought about as well and I will probably code something myself.
Current idea is to give 2 ubikeys to my wife and my mother. Together they have a pw which can be used to decrypt a gpg backup with all documents and the master pw to my vault warden instance.
Also, take a look at this: https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr