answer all calls with a robo-answerer... no one uses phones anymore, all communication now happens on facebook/twitter.

This show is great, your complaints are silly.

So next you'll complain about having an American version of iron chef? Go back to watching reruns of Takeshi's Castle...

hi, go read the links again. i think they speak for themselves; it doesn't matter to me if you have a different view of things. frankly this is getting away from the question that was asked so this is the last i have to add here.

definitely. in the non-rpg world this is known as Secret Sharing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing

lastpass was definitely hacked. even the ceo admits usernames and encrypted passwords could have been taken: http://www.pcworld.com/article/227268/lastpass_ceo_explains_possible_hack.html

having encrypted passwords plus at least some people choosing weak passwords plus rainbow tables or other brute force tools is a recipe for some people's accounts to be compromised.

um... no. cloud vendors can disappear without notice in which case you're out of luck. lastpass was hacked last year so that isn't the safest choice either. see http://lifehacker.com/5799036/the-best-password-utilities-that-dont-store-your-data-in-the-cloud so this is a real problem. the fact that you;re thinking about this means you're planning which is like better than probably 80% of people out there. so what i would do is come up with something that works for you and have your spouse/next of kin actually try to follow the agreed procedure without you around and have them report back on problem areas. a lot of businesses have disaster recovery plans which they try to play out once or twice a year. trying it definitely finds some problem areas.

see the comment above on the 1978 cryptosystem...

This 1978 crypto is supposed to be safe against quantum computers: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25629/ (if that's the specific angle you're worried about). The downside is the key management because the keys have to be really really long (i.e. 20,000+ characters vs having a memorable passowrd or passphrase that you'd be able to use today).

They're actually far ahead in some areas. WiFi is a breeze to setup compared to some Linux distros. And they really do aim for extreely high standards (i.e. POSIX) compliance. The other area that's outstanding is the documentation. Most *commercial* products don't have the level of quality the openbsd documentation has.

I use OpenBSD for everything from online banking and web surfing with Chrome to playing games, to watching youtube and viewing PDFs and my photo collection. About the only desktop activity I can't do on OpenBSD is use Wine for windows emulation which isn't supported and probably never will be. But in a pinch they have qemu which I keep meaning to try out because unfortunately I still need to use MS Office for work. And I use gnome which very closely follows the latest releases. KDE is another story and is quite far behind but there's been a recent effort to finally get it updated and maybe the next release will have some of that work included.

i use OpenBSD on *all* my laptops. these are not servers. they are desktops with gnome/chrome browser/etc. find it works really great. i don't know if he's just making stuff up sight unseen or he's actually tried using one of the BSDs.

Have you looked at rsnapshot?

It's based on this article:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/