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0 pointsbananas12y ago0 comments

> And how will that help if someone dies suddenly?

I've sorted my affairs out. I have a keypassX database and master passwords listed my will.

I take it you read the rest of my last post -- I have dealt with this.

Most people amble through life and never ask the question "what if?". If they do ask it, they light another cigarette rather than put mitigation in place. That is naivety and people need to snap out of it, pretty damn quick. The world is a big and complicated place and if you don't want to leave a pile of pain and suffering for people if you do decide to walk in front of a train or something then you need to sort it out.

No excuses.

Sorry.

As for Apple, they have no obligation to do anything. The device is an asset (tangible) and the will probably states about transferring them and the contract and terms are with the person who signed it. In this circumstance, they will cause themselves problems if they act and say yes here you go or no chance. I'm sure the Apple Account which is the issue wasn't even mentioned in the will or signatory's asset declaration.

Doomed either way.

Apple chose the right answer: mu (i.e. no answer).

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Silhouette12y ago

As for Apple, they have no obligation to do anything.

I don't know whether that's true legally here, but if it is, I don't think it should be.

If they provided devices with a factory reset that let someone unlock them, even if it meant locking out any older data, then maybe.

If they sold them with prominent warnings about how they could be rendered permanently useless in this sort of situation, maybe.

But they don't do those things. They deliberately lock the device to an authentication mechanism over which they have exclusive control under these conditions. If you're going to do that, and you're not going to warn people about it so they can make an informed decision about whether they want to buy a product with that limitation in the first place, then I think you do bear some responsibility for ensuring that the recovery mechanism operates reasonably.

trackerbri12y ago

Yep, I've made similar arrangements. After helping friends after the death of family members it became obvious that I needed to put something in place.

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