On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:57:45PM -0500, Grant NAPC wrote: > On 02/07/2017 12:26 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > > > > Now at worst, your spouse tries 2 passwords instead of 1. > > This is actually an interesting discussion. Some in our community are > forging ahead with using biometrics in lieu of passwords or even physical > keys. What happens to all of this when you're dead? How do you open a > biometric-secured safe deposit box, or access that Swiss Bank account of > someone who's dead and no longer "biometrically-active"?
Well, first you remember that a biometric is an identifier, not an authorizer. So the bank offers you a form with your safe deposit box: do you want anyone else to have access to it? Do you only want them to have access once you're dead? Those people go an ACL. It's not unusual; banks already require similar things for IRAs and other retirement accounts where it's plausible that you will end up dead before using them. -dsr- -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
