Imagine, 500 yrs later... a that-day breaking news media "writes" in bold, "a 80GB HDD found when robots were digging for water!! it is the archaeological finding of the human kind" and after a lot researches, scans they will be able to unscrew the HDD, read the disk & get your photos out of it, you will be a hero!!
Now back to earth. These days it is a serious problem, maybe we do not pay a lot of attention to it as we are the "first" generation of people that will live (die) it.
Other than the photographs, I do have my clients' web sites, that do face the same problem. What happens to those clients/websites when I die or get very ill & couldn't log on to the net!
For the photographs, my family to inherit them just like any other asset that I might have at that time, but for the web sites I can't do so, as non of them do/can work in that domain!
Since I'm a freelance designer/developer, I have made a script, that will email my clients all their usernames/passwords/info that they will need to maintain their site, if I don't log in to the script for 30 days!!
Moreover, I do have printed version of those emails, in separate envelopes & have told family, a close friend (just in case something happened to the whole family) & my clients about them. This is an additional step to make sure the clients' will get their info, if something happens to the server/script during my illness/death.
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