July 2, 2009
Cory Doctorow’s post on sharing passwords after death was timely for me. My wife and I are currently working on our own wills and estate plans, and wrestling with how to ensure we are able to access one another’s digital information. Like Doctorow, our digital information is locked up safely in encrypted filesystems.
His solution is [...]
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March 4, 2009
According to the New York Times, when debt collectors call up grieving relatives of the deceased, those relatives often have no obligation to pay the debt. So when do relatives have a responsibility to pay the debts of the dearly departed?
Since I represent the living, I asked someone who deals with the dead (or, rather, [...]
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