Taking passwords to the grave
If you spend a lot of time online, you need to do some estate planning in regard to your digital property. This includes access to passwords to your hard drives, e-mail, digital media, and online accounts.
Digg.com posts, “William Talcott, a prominent San Francisco poet with dual Irish citizenship, had fans all over the world. But when he died in June of bone marrow cancer, his daughter couldn’t notify most of his contacts because his e-mail account–and the online address book he used–was locked up.”