Il 11/07/2017 12:32, Binarus ha scritto: >> If you routinely use your card twice a day, they can make two or four >> guesses each day: every correct PIN you insert resets the counter. > I am not completely sure if I got you right. Wouldn't that mean that I > have to lose my card, the bad person then makes two guesses, then I get > back my card and enter my correct pin, then I lose my card again, and > the same bad person finds it again and makes another two guesses, then I > get my card back again and so on? Say that's your wife/son that takes the card when you're at home... Low prob, but possible :)
>> Usually there are other, non-technical ways. For example they just go to >> the bank with a death certificate. > I already have seen cases where it was not that easy in Germany. > Usually, presenting a death certificate to the bank is not enough. I > have seen that the bank had to make sure that the people presenting the > death certificate actually were the legal heirs. That meant that those > people had to acquire all sorts of documents from all sorts of > authorities which has been very expensive (several hundreds of EUR), but > more important, was very unpleasant and time consuming, especially in > the situation they were. Been there... Another reason to give the password before going with the documents might be "a bit" illegal: just transfer the money to avoid paying taxes. > But now, being a German citizen, try the same thing with eBay, Facebook, > LinkedIn, PayPal and so on ... no thanks. Why should heirs have access to social accounts? Paypal, otoh, is a bank that have to follow the same rules of other banks... > Nice ideas :-) My own security needs are not that high, though (hoping > that life won't punish me for that optimism). My concern with a singl "cleartext" pass would be a burglar that steals it together with other valuables... > To add to it, if you mistrust your relatives, you could put the password > on paper into some sort of lock box and carry the key to that lock box > with you. But then what would happen if you lost that key? Given that mechanical keys are often easier to open whithout the key than with it... BYtE, Diego _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
