Plan your Dirrogate Afterlife with a Google policy?

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We looked at each other, perhaps realizing that we knew the next question.

“Do you know any of the passwords?”

“No,” I said.

“Neither do I. If we could access the cloud storage, there could be some portfolio pictures.”

“Try a brute force password guess?”

We updated the dictionary to take into account different combinations of phrases and words that might have been used and let the password cracker do its job overnight.

…

In the morning, we were up at the same time. We went to the laptop. The dictionary attack was not successful at coming up with a possible password…

The above passage is from Page 166 of the book. (names and gender have been changed to the neutral word “the” to avoid spoilers.)

Google’s Inactive Account Manager:

Co-incidentally, this came up on Google’s “Public Policy Blog”:

Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. So today, we’re launching a new feature that makes it easy to tell Google what you want done with your digital assets when you die or can no longer use your account.

The feature is called Inactive Account Manager — not a great name, we know —

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