Passing on your "digital legacy".

Haggisman said:
I have a 1Password account, which it would be handy to give her access to, and I could add a lot of the information in there, but short of writing down the master password for her (which has it's own security implications), I'm not sure how to do that.
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You can create a 'family' 1Password account and your wife can have access via there - that's what I do. We have certain 'shared' passwords, bank details, car/home/life insurance, all logins etc. for all of the stuff that should be shared and then our own personal vaults (my wife isn't exactly chomping at the bit to login to my Overclockers forum account) - but when you're part of the family vault you can get access to everything in another family members vault if required. 1Password currently does it via their support and has a dedicated area for it where you'd submit the necessary documents (access key, death certificate etc.).

Also, I know it's not the point of your post, but hopefully you're doing ok. A colleague of mine really unexpectedly passed away in November last year and it knocked the stuffing out of a lot of us. I still find myself now almost expecting him to be in certain meetings, he was just a really good guy.
 
Haggisman said:
I have a 1Password account, which it would be handy to give her access to, and I could add a lot of the information in there, but short of writing down the master password for her (which has it's own security implications), I'm not sure how to do that.
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Print it all out and put the document in your safe.
 
Haggisman said:
My partner is quite scatty, and not particularly tech savvy, so I deal with most of the admin stuff; she wouldn't have a clue who our home/pet/car insurance etc./gas & electric/TV/internet are with, when they expire, passwords, account numbers, any of that, so I want to collate all of that information in a relatively secure way, but easy to access in an emergency.

The "easiest" for her would be a printed document with all the details, but that comes with the high likelihood of being lost and/or quickly outdated.
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If you've got paperless bills then just write down the providers and account numbers etc.. or take a single printout from each website etc.. then that's sorted - at the very least she can phone the utility companies and has an account number.

Haggisman said:
I have a 1Password account, which it would be handy to give her access to, and I could add a lot of the information in there, but short of writing down the master password for her (which has it's own security implications), I'm not sure how to do that.
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Either write it down in some cheap notebook/diary that you put in an office or bookshelf and she knows where it is etc.. or persuade her to sit down and make an effort to at least learn a few IT basics.

I don't think a burglar is likely to steal a notebook and the average one is just going to toss books at best while looking for valuables - so a password written on say page 89 (say her year of birth) of some random notebook isn't likely to even be seen by them as they toss all the books from the shelf.

Also if it's a passphrase and that's it then there's no context for them either. (Potentially keep some instructions in another notebook, maybe put that one in a shed or garage if worried)

If you're really paranoid then rent a safe deposit box then you have house fires covered too.
 
If I go first my wife will still want to ask me how to get an OTP into her shopping basket on Amazon
 
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t2na said:
You can create a 'family' 1Password account and your wife can have access via there - that's what I do. We have certain 'shared' passwords, bank details, car/home/life insurance, all logins etc. for all of the stuff that should be shared and then our own personal vaults (my wife isn't exactly chomping at the bit to login to my Overclockers forum account) - but when you're part of the family vault you can get access to everything in another family members vault if required. 1Password currently does it via their support and has a dedicated area for it where you'd submit the necessary documents (access key, death certificate etc.).
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Thanks, I did look into it more and I think that will do the vast majority of what I'm after, so I've set up a family account and once they've been "trained", I'll move stuff to a shared vault

t2na said:
Also, I know it's not the point of your post, but hopefully you're doing ok. A colleague of mine really unexpectedly passed away in November last year and it knocked the stuffing out of a lot of us. I still find myself now almost expecting him to be in certain meetings, he was just a really good guy.
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Thanks, I'll be ok, it's just been a major shock to us all, logged on this morning and the last message on discord was from him, keep seeing his initials on tickets etc. had to give the kids and my partner a massive hug last night after I found out
 
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