<p>So in the case that I die of an accident, I’d like to transfer my e-mail, website, and invisionfree accounts all to someone (since I don’t want the information to be permanently lost). The question is - is this legal? Also, I’m not trusting him with my password until I die (so I’m thinking of leaving instructions on my computer if I die…?) Or I don’t know. I could get him to contact someone who can then trust him with my account (my brother knows the password I use for everything, bah :p) what are the policies regarding the personal computers of those who have deceased? Also, I’d prefer to keep it away from my family since I’d much rather have the information in his hands than those of my family.</p>
<p>Thinking about making a will at such a young age is definitely normal.</p>
<p>Ask your parents if you can make a will.</p>
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QFT.</p>
<p>No, really, it is.</p>
<p>Put all the information in a box. Use some sort of combination lock to lock it up. Give him the box to keep around, and tell him to look for the combination in a specified place if you die. (You should probably just keep the combination on your person at all times, or something of that nature, so he can’t find the combination before you actually die [without undue effort].)</p>
<p>Alternatively, trust one person with the box and another person with the combination, and tell them to talk to each other. (That actually might be a worse plan.)</p>
<p>Lawyers usually make things more complicated than they should be.</p>
<p>(Of course, I wouldn’t know. Last time I thought I was going to die, my hurriedly-scrawled-out will went something along the lines of “yeah, I don’t care what happens after I die, but someone please finish my NetHack game for me. it would be a shame to get a wishless atheist to the castle without ascending it.”)</p>
<p>I like Rube Goldberg machines and coming up with convoluted ways to do stuff, so here’s another plan. (Can you tell I’m procrastinating on actually working?)</p>
<p>Come up with a good password. Write a document intended to help the intended recipient guess the password. Ideally, the intended recipient should be able to instantly deduce the password, but anyone else would find it impossible. e.g., if I had a husband and wanted to do this for him, it might go:</p>
<p>First part: food we ate every day on honeymoon
Second part: our favorite ride at Universal Studios
Third part: the only number from my research that I’ve ever told you about.</p>
<p>And the password might be “pizzaHulk1336.”</p>
<p>Then carry around another document with you at all times telling whoever finds it to send a codeword to the intended recipient. (Phrase it in the form of a last request – “you love me so much, how could you possibly refuse this one humble last request!”) Create a Gmail account with the codeword as the username, and use the password you came up with as the password. Then send all your important info to that Gmail account. It wouldn’t matter if anyone knew what the codeword was before you died. (Except that one person can’t know.)</p>
<p>Of course, if you wanted to be less romantic, you could straight-out tell him the password to the account. He wouldn’t be able to get into it before you died because he wouldn’t know the codeword.</p>
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<p>Hm, what else would I do if I wanted to do something like that…?</p>
<p>4) Make it into a treasure hunt!! Details later, if I feel like it. “For your first clue, go to Location X and do Action Y.” Finding the password would require lengthy trials involving peanut butter and Chipotle burritos. And at least one trip to Disneyland. (I want my victim to have as much fun as possible!)</p>
<p>5) Install a modified version of NetHack on his computer, where the password is a random engraving or rumor, or gets printed to the screen when my intended recipient finally ascends a foodless polyselfless atheist survivor. (After all, anyone I would consider trusting with that sort of thing would have to be really, really good at NetHack.) 
Or engraves “fizix is dead” in-game. (It’d be just like that thing in Harry Potter 7 – “I open at the close!”)</p>
<p>6) Give him a multiple-choice test about yourself, your quirks, and your ideas. If he gets all the answers correct, they’ll spell out the password. (Of course, I’d make it so the letters are all jumbled up and he’d have to solve some sort of neat mathematical puzzle to get them in the right order. But that’s only because I want my heir to have fun, for variously sadistic values of “fun.”)</p>
<p>I would think of a lot more lame ideas, but I have a presentation to give tomorrow. But hey, you could totally make this into something fun if you didn’t feel like being uptight about security. You just have to think about it a bit. :D</p>
<p>I made a will a few months ago, but I lost it. And I wouldn’t trust anyone with my stuff anyway. I’d rather it rotted in some basement or next to my grave.</p>
<p>Transfer them to Salvador Guiterrez.</p>
<p>edit: Is that who you were thinking of transfering them to?</p>
<p>you should get an intellectual property lawyer</p>
<p>lol funny suggestions fizix (translation: hm i’m too lazy to try them out now) :p</p>
<p>meh I don’t know. perhaps informally rather than legally is the best option. right now, i don’t even know if he’s 45 years old or 14. which scares me…a bit.</p>
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That’s really weird, to be totally honest. You should get out and interact with people more in real life.</p>
<p>lol, who is he? telll me!</p>
<p>He’s talking about CT. It’s obvious.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>WHAT?! No, he is talking about SALVADOR GUITERREZ. =P</p>
<p>Ooooo, sarcasm.</p>
<p>Or maybe it’s Alessandro Battousii, or Heinrich Kaiser, or Miroslav Hyrzek? :)</p>
<p>You shouldn’t post other peoples’ names without their permission.</p>
<p>yea, if they’re murdered in their sleep, their blood will be on your hands :D</p>
<p>And, chances are, the ditch they’ll be thrown into after they get kidnapped, raped, and maimed will be near your house.</p>
<p>^ most likely, daniel.</p>