March 11, 2009 by Mark Isle
Legacy Locker is the brainchild of a man named Jeremy Toeman, essentially it’s a back-up system for your passwords. Nothing new there I know, a carefully hidden Excel spreadsheet can do the same job, however, Toeman’s creation has one important difference. Legacy Locker also allows you to store names and contact information of designated trusted friends and relatives. In the event of your death, those people will be sent your password information.
I know this is a little bit morbid for a Wednesday morning, but consider this, a loved one dies leaving you to make the arrangements. In between planning a funeral and dealing with your grief do you really want to be sending emails to Yahoo, Facebook and banks asking to be let into accounts?
Legacy locker actually removes much of the infuriating admin that people go through when someone close to them dies, which can only be welcome. What’s more, it’s secure. The programme only releases information once the death has been confirmed and then only once a death certificate has been supplied. It also keeps the information up to date by periodically trying your passwords and notifying you if any are out of date.
All in all, a useful, if a little sombre, tool.
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