Taking passwords to the grave

Elinor Mills reports for C|Net.

Attorneys advising clients on estate planning should ask them to determine who they want to have access to their computers when they die, Rotenberg [Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center] said.

That's exactly what San Francisco-based estate planning attorney Michael Blacksburg does. "I advise clients to put all their passwords to things online in an estate planning document," he said.

(via WisBlawg)