Your Digital Inheritance?

eldavojohn writes "I wrote a journal entry musing on the idea of passing on accounts and digitally stored information from generation to generation. Has anyone done this or inherited anything? Does anyone else plan to do this? Is there a slip of paper in your deposit box at the bank with websites, account names and passwords?"

best fake quote ever ...

[bwthomas]

Everyone gather round! I'm going to open grandpa's tarball ...

My Digital Legacy

[digitaldc]

Does anyone else plan to do this? Is there a slip of paper in your deposit box at the bank with websites, account names and passwords?

Why yes, in fact, there is!
And imagine their surprise as my offspring open up my safe deposit box only to find a piece of paper with my Slashdot login & password and a note about trying to only post comments that are informative, insightful, interesting, or funny.

Re:best fake quote ever ...

[zaft]

Finding Grandpa's p0rn could be rather disturbing... especially for Grandma!

Re:Sounds like a movie plot.

[qwijibo]

They already did that movie. It's called "The Princess Bride". Sure, they had pirates instead of hackers, but according to the RIAA they're the same thing.

I am screwed

[iXiXi]

I am quite sure that mine would be quarantined due to virus or file corruption. A true eulogy to my life experience with MS products.

Re:best fake quote ever ...

[Asshat Canada]

...especially featuring Grandma.

wow

[earthstar]

A slashdot story linking to /. journal !

What next,a story linking to a /. comment?

Somehwere in the distant future...

[Billosaur]

...one child will receive the coveted "Floppy Disk of Power", unlocking all my secrets... sadly, the floppy will have been stored with my refrigerator magnet collection...

Re:best fake quote ever ...

[Alex P Keaton in da]

In all seriousness, don't joke about that.
I have a "friend" whose grandfather died, and when he had to help his mother clean out his grandfathers stuff, there were erotic pictures of my "friend's" grandmother (At least the pics were from the 40's, and not from when she was 80). Traumatizing.
But it does bring up a good point- Perhaps have a box where you keep your porn that says "throw out w/out opening if I die" or at least have a deal with a friend that whomever dies first, the other will do a porn sweep.
One of the reasons I have always hoped that I get a message from God a day or two before I die, is because I would freak out if I had to look down (or up) after death and watch my mother in law clean out my wife and my sex toy stash.

Ah yes, a truly magical moment

[moochfish]

"Son... I want you to have my porn when I'm gone."

Re:best fake quote ever ...

[21st Century Peon]

I would freak out if I had to... watch my mother in law clean out my wife Yup, that'd freak most people out.

Re:Sounds like a movie plot.

[AKAImBatman]

I have a confession to make. I am not the Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman. My name is Bob. I inherited this account from the previous Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman, just as others will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman, either. His name was George. The real AKAImBatman has been retired five years and living like a king in San Francisco. The name, you see, is the important thing for inspiring the necessary fear. No one would surrender to the "Dread Slashdotter Bob," so the name passes from generation to generation.

*sniff* Now you know the terrible secret.

So what's the value of a 3-digit /. UID?

[DG]

So, is discovering that dear ol' Uncle DG had a 3-digit UID anything like finding a box of old IBM stock or something?

Do famous UID's appreciate?

Will CleverNickName's progeny inherit a ton of /. fans?

How manu UIDs have shuffled off this moral coil? Should there be a virtual graveyeard for the UIDs of the deceased?

Is there historical value to the early musings of UID so-and-so, who went on to become the first Supreme Hegemon of the Terran Aliance?

Will far-future biologists marvel at the distended rectums of the typical 21st century human?

Will far-future anthropologists wonder at the pantheon that included Commander Taco, CoyboyNeil, and Natalie Portman? Will they re-enact the sacred ritual of pouring hot grits into one's shorts?

The mind boggles; truly.

DG

eep

[Bizzeh]

they would probably arrest my kids, and my kids kids, and my kids kids kids for the mounds of illegal software i have :)

Re:So what's the value of a 3-digit /. UID?

[Cromac]

So what's the value of a 3-digit /. UID?

Put it on Ebay and find out, stranger thangs than that have sold for absurd amounts, why not a low /. UID?

Re:Kind of....

[qray]

I knew all his passwords and stuff

So is this his slashdot account or yours? ;-)
--
Q

I use quantum encryption ....

[ytr]

to store all my secrets in a 1 pixel gif on my website.

Coupling - "porn buddies"

[runlvl0]

Susan: That er, that Steve guy; how well do you know him? Are you close?
Jeff: Close? We're porn buddies!
Susan: Porn buddies?
Jeff: Oh, yeah.
Susan: Is this code? Were you in prison together or something?
Jeff: No, no, no it's simple; it's a safety precaution, like a scuba driver swims with a buddy in case he runs out of air.
Susan: Okay, okay. Are you telling me that a porn buddy stands by with oxygen?
Jeff: No. Many years ago, me and Steve exchanged house keys--
Susan: Are you sure this isn't code?
Jeff: It isn't code.
Susan: Alright.
Jeff: In the event of Steve's death the first thing I would do --upset though I will be-- is go straight to his house and remove all the pornography before his parents can find it.
Susan: You're kidding!
Jeff: And he's pledged to do the same for me. That's how close we are!
Susan: You two have seriously made plans to destroy each other's dirty mags?
Jeff: Who said, "destroy?" Remove.
Susan: you wouldn't keep them?
Jeff: It's a perk.
Susan: Oh, Jeff.
Jeff: That's the beauty of it, you see. Your best friend's dead, but there's a bright side!

Re:porn!

[BenjiTheGreat98]

A friend and I have an arrangement: If one of us dies the other one has to break into their house and steal all the porn before parents/grandparents find it while going through the belongings.

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

*My* password is so strong, I can smell it for days after I've typed it.

Re:Ick so low tech and no fun...

[hacker]

Don't worry, in 50 years, the location of those 35mm cannisters will be plowed under to make way for a parking lot or a building or some other item to further corporate interests. So much for your inheritence ;)

Re:Kind of....

[Dirtside]

Interestingly, he still about 50-100 spam emails per day.

He still? He still what? He still sends 50-100 spams per day? That'd give new meaning to the term "zombie."

Re:Coupling - "porn buddies"

[borawjm]

So who cleans out the porn for the guy who doesn't die first? He would have double the amount of porn to be found.