As it turns out, in this fast paced digital world, people are not only forgetting their passwords to everything, they’re forgetting to put access to their online accounts in their wills.

A service, Legacy Locker, has popped up to fill this aching need so that your greedy greiving relatives can get access to all your online accounts after you die. This amazing service is yours for $30 a year, or $300 for a lifetime. I guess the $30/year option is for people already in the 70s or beyond, because you know, heaps of them have a load of online accounts.

Now, in some ways, this makes a lot of sense. You just don’t want your greedy bastard children clearing out your PayPal account on unauthorised purchases, or nephew having access to your WoW account and selling off your lvl80 character, while you’re still alive enough to be really pissed off about it.

But what happens if you change your passwords or something while you’re alive, and have forgotten to tell Legacy Locker? Or you die and no one knows you have a Legacy Locker account, so no one actually tells them (I guess you’re meant to tell your lawyer, or state executor, about it)? Or worst case scenario, you forget your Legacy Locker password?!

This is why I have a handy bit of software called KeePass. Not only is it usable on EVERY O/S, including most mobile phone ones, but it saves your passwords for everything, online or off. And it’s freeware! God bless you, idealistic Linux geeks! So now you only need to remember one password. The one for your KeePass master file.

Put that in your will instead, save yourself hundreds of dollars on a company that is probably destined to go broke anyway, and upon your death have the password given to that one special person in your life that will know how to wisely and fairly divide up your online estate:

The cat.

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